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Ending the violence and insecurity caused by the Lord's Resistance Army conflict is more about empowering civil society and seeking and supporting local solutions across many countries than about keeping US military advisers in the region.

The youthful, Western attention brought to the issue by Invisible Children and #Kony2012 is not in itself a solution. The people living in the midst of the violence have the greatest insight into its causes and they hold the key to finding peaceful ways to resolve it.

This article originally appeared on Open Democracy