Invisible Children- Source #1

Today, I visited Invisible Children's website in order to learn more about the cause and the history of the war in Uganda. On their website, I found one particularly helpful page entitled "Uganda Today" that gave both background and history of the issue, but also outlined the chronology of the war and how it has evolved in the past decade. This article spoke about the Juba Peace Talks, which occured from 2006 until 2008 and were between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GoU). These talks signified the longest period of peace in Uganda's 23 year war. Although the Juba Peace Talks developed with the hope that they would result in a resolution between the LRA's leader Joseph Kony and Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Kony continually failed to sign the Final Peace Agreement (FPA), eventually resulting in the unfortunate dissolution of any hope for peace. The article explains that since the end of the Juba Peace Talks, LRA violence has only increased in intensity, displacing approximately 1.8 million people. This article really helped me to get a firm grasp on the history of the war that Invisible Children is working to end. This article continues to provide a detailed history of the issue by tracing its development since nearly 1996 until present day. Although it describes many of the atrocities committed by the LRA and Joseph Kony, it is also somewhat encouraging, as it offers information on the many attempts at peace talks, cease fire agreements, and treaties attempted by other nations in an effort to help Uganda. Although this war has the reputation of being largely ignored on the global scale, it appears that awareness is steadily increasing.