Book contents
- The Lord’s Resistance Army
- The Lord’s Resistance Army
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Lord’s Resistance Army
- 3 The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord’s Resistance Army in 2006
- 4 ‘Am I an Animal?’
- 5 The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord’s Resistance Army in 2007
- 6 ‘Reach Out a Hand and Pull It Back’
- 7 The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord’s Resistance Army in 2008
- 8 ‘LRA Has Already Become a System’
- 9 ‘We Are All Learning in This Peace Process’
- References
- Index
2 - The Lord’s Resistance Army
A Continuum of War, Peace and Information
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2021
- The Lord’s Resistance Army
- The Lord’s Resistance Army
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Lord’s Resistance Army
- 3 The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord’s Resistance Army in 2006
- 4 ‘Am I an Animal?’
- 5 The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord’s Resistance Army in 2007
- 6 ‘Reach Out a Hand and Pull It Back’
- 7 The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord’s Resistance Army in 2008
- 8 ‘LRA Has Already Become a System’
- 9 ‘We Are All Learning in This Peace Process’
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter outlines the history of the conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda, using the framings of war, peace and information. It gives an overview of the conflict history, including the deep sense of betrayal that guides the LRA. An overview of previous peace attempts highlights the reasons why these had failed – some of which were going to be mirrored in the Juba Talks. Through the history of peace attempts, the chapter connects actors in the Juba Talks to previous efforts and shows how the debate on peace shifted when the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for five LRA commanders. In describing how the Juba Talks came about, the chapter uses the categories of space, ideology and affiliation to explain the identity of the LRA and its political wing, the Lord’s Resistance Movement. The chapter further argues that the LRA entered the Juba Peace Talks with the understanding that it would be a forum to deal publicly with the root causes of the war. They also hoped to gain better control of the narratives that had influenced this war, with a discourse in favour of the government.
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- The Lord's Resistance ArmyViolence and Peacemaking in Africa, pp. 32 - 69Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021