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The Lord's Resistance Army : violence and peacemaking in Africa / Mareike Schomerus, Overseas Development Institute.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Schomerus, Mareike (Author)
Other title:Violence and peacemaking in Africa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Lord's Resistance Army.
Juba Peace Talks > History.
Lord's Resistance Army
Insurgency > Uganda.
Peace-building > Africa > International cooperation.
Civil war > Africa.
Uganda > Politics and government > 1979-
Civil war
Insurgency
Politics and government
Africa
Uganda
Since 1979
History
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on the Text
  • List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • 1 Introduction: Seeking Peace with the Lord's Resistance Army
  • 1.1 Getting Ready for Peace
  • 1.2 Understanding the Reality of Peace Negotiations
  • 1.3 Overview
  • 1.4 The Challenge of Peace
  • 1.5 The Scholarship on Peace Negotiations
  • 1.6 Modelling Negotiations
  • 1.7 What Do Peace Agreements Achieve?
  • 1.8 How Do Wars End?
  • 1.9 A Comment on Methods
  • 2 The Lord's Resistance Army: A Continuum of War, Peace and Information
  • 2.1 War
  • 2.2 Peace
  • 2.3 The LRA Moves towards the Juba Talks
  • 2.4 Space and Ideology
  • 2.5 Affiliation
  • 2.6 Information
  • 2.7 A Focus on Joseph Kony
  • 2.8 Continuing Continuum
  • 3 The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord's Resistance Army in 2006: 'While Talking, There Is Troop Movement'
  • 3.1 First on the Agenda: Ending Hostilities
  • 3.2 Challenges in Ceasing Hostilities
  • 3.3 Implementation Challenges
  • 3.4 Approaching the Assembly Deadline
  • 3.5 Talks Continue amidst Confusion
  • 3.6 Peace Talks Conditions
  • 3.7 The Cessation of Hostilities Monitoring Team Fact-Finding Mission
  • 3.8 Violations
  • 3.9 Museveni Comes to Juba
  • 3.10 Continued Violence
  • 3.11 Comprehensive Political Solutions
  • 3.12 Doubts over Continuation
  • 3.13 Strengthening Negotiations
  • 3.14 Conclusion
  • 4 'Am I an Animal?': Identity, Rules and Loss in the Lord's Resistance Army
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Identities and Personal Choices
  • 4.3 Prize Identity
  • 4.4 Rules
  • 4.5 Achievements
  • 4.6 Conclusion
  • 5 The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord's Resistance Army in 2007: 'We Don't Know If We Can Trust'
  • 5.1 What Will Happen to the Juba Talks?
  • 5.2 Managing the Impasse
  • 5.3 The Talks Continue
  • 5.4 Leadership Struggle
  • 5.5 Conclusion
  • 6 'Reach Out a Hand and Pull It Back': The Lord's Resistance Army's 'Connect/Disconnect' Meets International Galvanic Surges
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 The Lord's Resistance Army/Movement's Connect/Disconnect
  • 6.3 Making Broader Connections for Peace
  • 6.4 An Example of Reaching Out and Pulling Back
  • 6.5 Internationalisation and Africanisation
  • 6.6 Connect/Disconnect Tensions
  • 6.7 Misinterpretation of Disconnect
  • 6.8 Galvanic Surges
  • 6.9 Skewed Incentives and Cognitive Dissonance
  • 6.10 Acting in Dissonance: Connect/Disconnect and Galvanic Surges
  • 6.11 Conclusion
  • 7 The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord's Resistance Army in 2008: 'Maybe We Came Too Close to the Enemy'
  • 7.1 January Changes
  • 7.2 Final Talks
  • 7.3 The Missing Signature
  • 7.4 Operation Lightning Thunder
  • 7.5 Conclusion
  • 8 'LRA Has Already Become a System': Representation and Distrust in the Lord's Resistance Army
  • 8.1 Who Represents the LRA?
  • 8.2 Battling a Hostile Environment
  • 8.3 System of Distrust
  • 8.4 Distrust and Approval

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