A Diplomatic Surge For Northern Uganda

Author:
John Prendergast and Adam O’Brien
Publisher:
Enough
Publication Date:
13 December 2007
Tags:
Uganda, Conflict, Peace and Security, Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution

Dissension, disarray, deaths, and defections within concerted in recent months. The United States is the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army leadership provide a major opportunity for negotiators to pursue—parallel to an expeditious conclusion of the formal negotiations process in Juba—the conclusion of a swift deal with LRA leader Joseph Kony himself. Such a deal would seek to find an acceptable set of security and livelihood arrangements for the LRA leadership—particularly those indicted by the International Criminal Court—and its rank and file. This moment of weakness at the top of the LRA must be seized upon immediately. If diplomats don’t, the LRA’s long-time patron, the government of Sudan, will eventually come to Kony’s rescue as it has in the past, and new life will be breathed into the organization in the form of weapons and supplies.

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