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The Lord's Resistance Army [[electronic resource] ] : myth and reality / / edited by Tim Allen and Koen Vlassenroot
| The Lord's Resistance Army [[electronic resource] ] : myth and reality / / edited by Tim Allen and Koen Vlassenroot |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Zed, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.325096761 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AllenTim <1956->
VlassenrootKoen |
| Soggetto topico | Domestic terrorism - Uganda |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-84813-903-9
1-282-73869-0 9786612738692 1-84813-564-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
About the editors; Plates; 1 Joseph Kony and one of his surviving senior commanders, Okot Odhiambo, posing for photographs in Ri-Kwangba; Maps; Districts of Northern Uganda affected by the LRA up to 2005; Lord's Resistance Army main areas of operation, 2002-10; Location of peace talks and LRA attacks, 2006-09; 2 Two young LRA guerrillas take basic commodities and utensils back to their hideout in the DRC's Garamba jungle; Introduction; Historical background on the Uganda/Sudan border; Uganda after independence; The Holy Spirit Movement; Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army
Anti-insurgency and talks 1988-96Amnesty and 'Iron Fist'; Forced displacement; Referral to the International Criminal Court; The current situation; Acknowledgements; 3 Amuru internally displaced persons' camp; PART ONE Interpretations of Uganda's war in the north; 4 LRA guerrilla soldiers stand guard during a meeting between Vincent Otti and Dr Riek Machar; 1| Exploring the roots of LRA violence: politicalcrisis and ethnic politics in Acholiland; Introduction; Background to crisis; NRA occupation and the rise of the UPDA; The Holy Spirit Movement (HSM) The Lord's Resistance Army and anti-civilian political violenceConclusion: resolving the crises, ending the war; 2 | Uganda's politics of foreign aid and violent conflict: the political uses of the LRA rebellion; Economic reform and political consolidation; The transformation of the army; The transformation of rebellion; Rebellion and the politics of economic reform; The war and electoral competition; Dynamics of the rebellion; Conclusion; 3 | The spiritual order of the LRA; Introduction; Strategic functions of the spiritual order in the LRA Conclusion: the spiritual order in a dynamic perspective4 | An African hell of colonial imagination? The Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, another story; The debated background; Fragments of non-understanding; Other imaginings of Africa; When you can do nothing ...; Versions of the reality; Without closure: global politics at the peripheries?; 5 Consolata Achelem of Unyama displacement camp; PART TWO Experiencing the LRA; 6 Joseph Kony during peace talks at Ri-Kwangba; 5 | Chasing the Kony story; Introduction; The chase; Agreements and delays; The road to Ri-Kwangba; Arrival at the LRA camp Getting the news outJournalism and abuse of trust; 6 | 'A terrorist is not a person like me': an interview with Joseph Kony; A meeting over breakfast; What is a terrorist?; 'We did not kill'; 'I did not abduct anybody'; 'They want Acholi to remain poor'; 'A clean war is known to God only'; 'I am not guilty'; 'I am a freedom fighter'; 7 | On the nature and causes of LRA abduction: what the abductees say; Introduction; Data: the Survey of War Affected Youth; The scale and incidence of abduction; Table 7.1 Self-reported abduction experiences from returned former abductees Figure 7.1 Distribution of LRA abductions of males by age of abduction |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458760903321 |
| London, : Zed, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The lord's resistance army : myth and reality / / edited by Tim Allen and Koen Vlassenroot
| The lord's resistance army : myth and reality / / edited by Tim Allen and Koen Vlassenroot |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.325096761 |
| Soggetto topico |
Domestic terrorism - Uganda
Terrorism, armed struggle |
| ISBN |
1-350-22324-7
1-84813-903-9 1-282-73869-0 9786612738692 1-84813-564-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part 1. Interpretations of Uganda's war in the north: Exploring the roots of LRA violence: political crisis and ethnic politics in Acholiland / Adam Branch ; Uganda's politics of foreign aid and violent conflict: the political uses of the LRA rebellion / Andrew Mwenda ; The spiritual order of the LRA / Kristof Titeca ; An African hell of colonial imagination? The Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, another story / Sverker Finnstrom -- Part 2. Experiencing the LRA: Chasing the Kony story / Mareike Schomerus ; 'A terrorist is not a person like me': an interview with Joseph Kony / Mareike Schomerus ; On the nature and causes of LRA abduction: what the abductees say / Christopher Blattman and Jeannie Annan ; Between two worlds: former LRA soldiers in northern Uganda / Ben Mergelsberg ; Encountering Kony: a Madi perspective / Ronald Iya -- Part 3. Peace and justice: Northern Uganda: a 'forgotten conflict', again? The impact of the internationalization of the resolution process / Sandrine Perrot ; 'The realists in Juba'? An analysis of the Juba peace talks / Ronald R. Atkinson ; NGO involvement in the Juba peace talks; the role and dilemmas of IKV Pax Christi / Simon Simonse, Willemijn Verkoren and Gerd Junne ; Bitter roots: the 'invention' of Acholi traditional justice / Tim Allen ; The ICC investigation of the Lord's Resistance Army: an insider's view / Matthew Brubacher -- Postscript: a kind of peace and an exported war / Tim Allen, Frederick Laker, Holly Porter and Mareike Schomerus. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784911103321 |
| London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The lord's resistance army : myth and reality / / edited by Tim Allen and Koen Vlassenroot
| The lord's resistance army : myth and reality / / edited by Tim Allen and Koen Vlassenroot |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.325096761 |
| Soggetto topico |
Domestic terrorism - Uganda
Terrorism, armed struggle |
| ISBN |
1-350-22324-7
1-84813-903-9 1-282-73869-0 9786612738692 1-84813-564-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part 1. Interpretations of Uganda's war in the north: Exploring the roots of LRA violence: political crisis and ethnic politics in Acholiland / Adam Branch ; Uganda's politics of foreign aid and violent conflict: the political uses of the LRA rebellion / Andrew Mwenda ; The spiritual order of the LRA / Kristof Titeca ; An African hell of colonial imagination? The Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, another story / Sverker Finnstrom -- Part 2. Experiencing the LRA: Chasing the Kony story / Mareike Schomerus ; 'A terrorist is not a person like me': an interview with Joseph Kony / Mareike Schomerus ; On the nature and causes of LRA abduction: what the abductees say / Christopher Blattman and Jeannie Annan ; Between two worlds: former LRA soldiers in northern Uganda / Ben Mergelsberg ; Encountering Kony: a Madi perspective / Ronald Iya -- Part 3. Peace and justice: Northern Uganda: a 'forgotten conflict', again? The impact of the internationalization of the resolution process / Sandrine Perrot ; 'The realists in Juba'? An analysis of the Juba peace talks / Ronald R. Atkinson ; NGO involvement in the Juba peace talks; the role and dilemmas of IKV Pax Christi / Simon Simonse, Willemijn Verkoren and Gerd Junne ; Bitter roots: the 'invention' of Acholi traditional justice / Tim Allen ; The ICC investigation of the Lord's Resistance Army: an insider's view / Matthew Brubacher -- Postscript: a kind of peace and an exported war / Tim Allen, Frederick Laker, Holly Porter and Mareike Schomerus. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809714303321 |
| London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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