Northern Uganda: Seizing the Opportunity for Peace
- Publisher:
- ICG
- Publication Date:
- 26 April 2007
- Tags:
- Uganda, Conflict, Peace and Security, Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution
With peace negotiations due to restart in the southern Sudanese town of Juba on 26 April, the ten-month-old peace process between the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government still has a chance of ending one of Africas longest, most brutal conflicts. The present process is more structured and inclusive than previous efforts to end the twenty-year-old conflict, benefits from greater - if still inadequate - external involvement, and has made some significant gains, notably removing most LRA fighters from Northern Uganda. And the implementation of the agreement to end Sudans north-south civil war has reduced both the LRAs and the Ugandan armys room for manoeuvre.
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