Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army have relied on borderlands and declining political will to avoid detection.
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Sustained diplomacy is needed to make current peace efforts work more effectively in the DRC.
Tanzania’s refugee policy in the 1990s is a good example of how geopolitics affects ordinary refugees.
The Banyamulenge have been viewed as strangers in their own country – the violence targeting them revolves around this misconception.
Smuggling in Uganda’s West Nile region is seen as an act of defiance – a way to make ends meet in the face of perceived state neglect.
The root causes of the ongoing conflict in Darfur are rising to the surface amid an influx of arms from Libya.
A nationally mandated quarantine isn’t keeping Colombia’s armed groups at home. Despite calls for a ceasefire, they are still killing activists, threatening humanitarian workers and seizing aid.
Organizations try to hide mistakes and evade responsibility, studies show. But two scholars analyzing militant and terrorist groups say they are willing to acknowledge their mistakes – sometimes.
Natural resources are an important factor in explaining why some rebel groups forcibly recruit children into their ranks.
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