AidaIro Illustrations: Toilet-bound Hanako-kun

Introduction - Tim Allen and Koen Vlassenroot Part I: Interpretations of Uganda's war in the north 1. Exploring the Roots of LRA Violence: Political Crisis and Ethnic Politics in Acholiland - Adam Branch 2. Uganda's politics of foreign aid and violent conflict: The political uses of the LRA rebellion - Andrew Mwenda 3. The Spiritual Order of the LRA - Kristof Titeca 4. An African hell of colonial imagination? The Lord's Resistance Army/Movement in Uganda, another story - Sverker Finnstroem Part II: Experiencing the LRA 5. Chasing the Kony Story - Mareike Schomerus 6. 'A terrorist is not a person like me' - an interview with Joseph Kony - Mareike Schomerus 7. On the nature and causes of LRA abduction: What the abductees say - Christopher Blattman and Jeannie Annan 8. Between two worlds: former LRA soldiers in northern Uganda - Ben Mergelsberg 9. Encountering Kony: A Madi perspective - Ronald Iya Part III: Peace and justice 10. Northern Ugandan: a 'forgotten conflict', again? The impact of the internationalization of the resolution process - Sandrine Perrot 11. The Role of the Government of the South Sudan in Peace Talks to End the War in Northern Uganda - Ronald R. Atkinson 12. NGO involvement in the Juba peace talk: the role and dilemmas of IKV Pax Christi - Simon Simonse, Willemijn Verkoren, Gerd Junne 13. Bitter Roots: the 'invention' of Acholi traditional justice - Tim Allen 14. 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 Bibliography