| | The Refugee Law Project today launches its eleventh Working Paper, Behind the Violence: Causes, Consequences and the Search for Solutions to the War in Northern Uganda. Based on extensive interviews across northern and eastern Uganda, the report offers a fresh, in-depth analysis of both Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the wider war in the north. It explores the structural causes that underpin the conflict, the LRA's motivations and military tactics, the war's current dynamics, the implications of the conflict spreading further east, and ideas for resolution. The conflict in northern Uganda has continued for nearly 18 years, and there appears to be little end in sight. Over 1.4 million people have been displaced, tens of thousands more have been killed, raped or abducted, and the war has spread into Teso and Lango districts. Through presenting an in-depth analysis of the war, the RLP hopes to give renewed focus and motivation to the relevant actors working to end the conflict. |
