The Lord's Resistance Army : violence and peacemaking in Africa / Mareike Schomerus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schomerus, Mareike, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lord's Resistance Army.

Juba Peace Talks--History.

Juba Peace Talks.

Insurgency--Uganda.

Insurgency.

Civil war--Africa.

Civil war.

Peace-building--Africa--International cooperation.

Peace-building.

International cooperation.

Uganda--Politics and government--1979-.

Uganda.

Politics and government.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is one of Africa's most notorious armed rebel groups, having operated across Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When they entered the Juba Peace Talks with the Ugandan Government in 2006, the peace deal seemed like a gift to fighters who had for years barely been surviving in Central Africa's jungles. Yet the talks failed. Why? Based on exclusive interviews with LRA fighters and their notorious leader Joseph Kony, Mareike Schomerus provides insights into how the LRA experienced the Juba Talks, revealing developing dynamics and deep distrust within a conflict system and how these became entrenched through the peace negotiations. In so doing, Schomerus offers an explanation as to why current approaches to ending armed violence not only fail but how they actively contribute to their own failure, and calls for a new approach to contemporary peacemaking.

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ISBN:

9781108662505

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Restricted for use by site license.