In the storm that has erupted over Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 campaign, one conclusion that people on all sides of the controversy tend to agree upon is the deep, even desperate, need for more information about the conflict historically centered in northern Uganda.
From the Blog
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From Rebels to Charity Cases and Back?: Ideology and Political Futures in Northern Uganda
Posted by admin on May 26, 2013Sam Dubal Bearing visible war scars, Ocira still thinks of himself as a rebel. Once a fighter of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), he was unwillingly returned home, captured by…
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The (LRA) Conflict: Beyond The LRA Lobby & The Hunt For Kony… And Towards Civilian Protection
Posted by admin on May 26, 2013Kristof Titeca On the 28th of February this year, an unfortunate incident happened in Garamba National Park, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)-affected area in North-Eastern Congo. A group of Congolese soldiers went on…
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Today he is no more: Magic, intervention, and global war in Uganda
Posted by admin on May 26, 2013Sverker Finnström In this article, I revisit a few months of intensive fieldwork conducted in late 2005. This fieldwork spell was part of a much longer engagement with war-torn Acholiland…
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Invisible Children: Giving American Youth a Raison D’Etre
Posted by Rima on Dec 03, 2012Ayesha Nibbe Almost nine months after the release of KONY 2012, Joseph Kony is a distant memory for most of the original 100+ million viewers of the historic viral video….
