Contents
Additional resources
Partners and events
CR Uganda programme
Key texts and agreements
Real stories
Maps
Chronology
Profiles
Further reading
Acronyms
Acknowledgements
Accord Northern Uganda project
Since the mid-1980s, the civil war between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has caused great suffering to the people of Acholiland in northern Uganda. Marked by child-abductions and widespread forced displacement, the war has become linked to larger geopolitical interests – in particular the conflict in southern Sudan.
Although a meaningful peace process remains elusive, Protracted conflict, elusive peace: initiatives to end the violence in northern Uganda (Accord issue 11, 2002) documents the history of peacemaking initiatives by local officials, elders and the international community in their efforts to resolve this conflict. It captures the complex story of how each failure to consolidate and implement the agreements has led to more violence and deepened mistrust between the LRA and the government.
The publication describes and analyses the impact of civil society initiatives, traditional reconciliation processes and the child rights agenda on the dynamics of the conflict, and provides a resource to help meet the need to learn from the past in future peacemaking. It also contains the full peace agreement texts, a chronology of the conflict and peace process and profiles of the key people and groups involved.
Livingstone Sewanyana, Foundation for Human Rights Initiative