Uganda: Understanding and Solving the Conflict

To bring security and democracy to northern Uganda, the government needs a new strategy, argues the International Crisis Group in a new report. The situation demands a comprehensive approach, in which greater political action and intensified humanitarian relief complement military measures against the murky and murderous Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The UN calls the eighteen-year civil war, which has displaced 1.5 million people, one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters.