The Lord’s Resistance Army

Based on exclusive interviews with the LRA, one of the most notorious armed rebel groups in Africa, and their leader Joseph Kony, this study explores why current approaches to ending armed violence not only fail, but how they actively contribute to their own failure, calling for a new approach to contemporary peacemaking.

1. Introduction: Seeking Peace with the Lord's Resistance Army; 2. The Lord's Resistance Army: A Continuum of War, Peace and Information; 3. The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord's Resistance Army in 2006: 'While Talking, There Is Troop Movement'; 4. 'Am I an Animal?': Identity, Rules and Loss in the Lord's Resistance Army; 5. The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord's Resistance Army in 2007: 'We Don't Know If We Can Trust'; 6. 'Reach Out a Hand and Pull It Back': The Lord's Resistance Army's 'Connect/Disconnect' Meets International Galvanic Surges; 7. The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord's Resistance Army in 2008: 'Maybe We Came Too Close to the Enemy'; 8. 'LRA Has Already Become a System': Representation and Distrust in the Lord's Resistance Army; 9. 'We Are All Learning in This Peace Process': Peacemaking and the Legacy of the Juba Peace Talks with the Lord's Resistance Army.