The Lord's Resistance Army: Violence and Peacemaking in Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108485920)

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is one of Africa's most notorious armed rebel groups, having operated across Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When they entered the Juba Peace Talks with the Ugandan Government in 2006, the peace deal seemed like a gift to fighters who had for years barely been surviving in Central Africa's jungles. Yet the talks failed. Why? Based on exclusive interviews with LRA fighters and their notorious leader Joseph Kony, Mareike Schomerus provides insights into how the LRA experienced the Juba Talks, revealing developing dynamics and deep distrust within a conflict system and how these became entrenched through the peace negotiations. In so doing, Schomerus offers an explanation as to why current approaches to ending armed violence not only fail but how they actively contribute to their own failure, and calls for a new approach to contemporary peacemaking.

Author: Mareike Schomerus
ISBN-10: 1108485928
ISBN-13: 9781108485920
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2021
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2022