The Lord's Resistance Army

Falling through the net: The challenges for returning adult ex-combatants in northern Uganda

Aug 2004

This unique report, supported by Conciliation Resources, focuses specifically on the experiences of adult, rather than children, returnees from the Lord's Resistance Army.

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Topic: 'Dwogo Cen Paco'(Come back home) programme

Mar 2011

Bishop Ochala II shares an insight from his work in northern Uganda into the conflict between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Ugandan government in this presentation.

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Dealing with the past: Experiences of transitional justice, truth and reconciliation processes after periods of violent conflict in Africa

May 2006

How to deal with the past in northern Uganda is an extremely sensitive issue. Anika May focuses on lessons to learn from other countries in this report for Conciliation Resources.

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Cross-border trade: Fuelling conflict or building peace? An exploration of cross-border trade between Sudan and Uganda and the implications for peacebuilding

Sep 2009

Cross-border trade has the power to genuinely revitalise a region. Graham Carrington of Conciliation Resources analyses the situation between Uganda and, as it was known at the time of the study, Sudan (now South Sudan).

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Coming home: Understanding why commanders of the Lord’s Resistance Army choose to return to a civilian life

May 2006

This report contains recommendations from Conciliation Resources and Quaker Peace & Social Witness to encourage Lord's Resistance Army commanders to leave fighting and return home.

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After Operation Lightning Thunder: Protecting communities and building peace

Apr 2009

Instead of peace, Operation Lightening Thunder resulted in death and displacement. Conciliation Resources' report explores the situation further.

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Mapping conflicts across borders

Paix sans frontières: building peace across borders

Jan 2011

Clionadh Raleigh outlines the groundbreaking Armed Conflict Location and event Data (ACLED) data set, which records violence spatially and temporally, and enables violent activity to be tracked by location (instead of by state), across borders over time.

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Cross-border peacebuilding

War does not respect political or territorial boundaries but forms part of regional conflict systems through dynamics that cross borders: refugee flows, nomadic armed groups like the LRA, narcotic or criminal networks, blood diamonds, or psycho-social ties.

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Standing united for peace: The EU in coordinated third-party support to peace processes

Dec 2010

How can the European Union best use its unique position to help end armed conflicts? Canan Gündüz of International Alert and Kristian Herbolzheimer of Conciliation Resources explain in this report.

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Civil Society: Participating in peace processes

Jan 2005

Peace processes which only include political and military players are potentially dangerous. Celia McKeon of Conciliation Resources explains why civil society's role is crucial in her chapter in 'People building peace II'.

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