The Lord's Resistance Army and African International Relations

For the past two decades, the Lord's Resistance Army has waged a devastating war against the central government and the local population in northern Uganda. It is estimated that tens of thousands of civilians have been killed or kidnapped so far. In recent years, Lord's Resistance Army for...

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Published in:African security 2010-01, Vol.3 (1), p.46-63
Main Author: Dunn, Kevin C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa
Armed conflict
Army
Civil war
Conflict
Holy Spirit Movement
ICC
Insurgency
Internal security
International Criminal Court
International Relations
Joseph Kony
LRA
Museveni
Original Articles
Political conditions
Regional conflicts
Regionalism
Resistance
Security
Sovereignty
Uganda
War
Warfare
Yoweri
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Summary:For the past two decades, the Lord's Resistance Army has waged a devastating war against the central government and the local population in northern Uganda. It is estimated that tens of thousands of civilians have been killed or kidnapped so far. In recent years, Lord's Resistance Army forces led by Joseph Kony have moved beyond the confines of northern Uganda, turning what was a relatively localized civil war into a larger regional conflict. Media and scholarly attention to the conflict has been limited, with most coverage typified by sensationalism, focusing on the brutality of the Lord's Resistance Army and its practice of kidnapping children. Western political scientists, particularly working within the field of international relations, have given the conflict short shrift even though it provides an important case for understanding the complexities and contradictions of African international relations. This article focuses on the evolution of the Lord's Resistance Army conflict, with particular attention to recent events that have broadened the geographic scope of the war. This article explores how the Lord's Resistance Army case critically challenges some of the assumptions traditional IR makes about conflict, security, the sovereign state, and regionalism.
ISSN:1939-2206
1939-2214
DOI:10.1080/19362201003608797