Situation Report: The Juba Peace Talks - The Checkered Road to Peace for Northern Uganda, David Mwaniki and Manasseh Wepundi

The northern Uganda conflict has had dehumanizing and devastating repercussions on the communities in northern Uganda and the country as a whole. Northern and eastern Uganda has been a front line of conflict for longer than the 20-year LRA conflict. Still, Uganda`s history is coloured by bloody conflicts revolving around power struggles since independence, with President Museveni`s National Resistance Movement either forcefully frustrating or engaging in dialogue aimed towards resolving armed conflicts fought by up to twenty armed groups. But perhaps the longest unresolved conflict is the Lord`s Resistance Army (LRA) which has survived major government and community-based military offences, and the four previous attempts at resolving the conflict through negotiation failed.