Over the last year, more than 1,000 people have joined the Uganda Conflict Action Network as we call on our world's leaders to make peace in northern Uganda a priority. Here are four steps you can take right now to help end this war:

1.) SIGN UP and join the rapidly growing network of people working for peace in northern Uganda by simply writing your email address in the box to the right.

2.) PARTICIPATE in our letter writing campaign to the new U.S. Ambassador to Uganda, urging him to make peace in northern Uganda a priority.

3.) DONATE to Uganda-CAN to help us continue our work for peace.

4.) Visit our partners GuluWalk and join their grassroots movement.

Within his first month in the country, new U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Steven Browning scheduled a week-long visit to northern Uganda and witnessed first-hand the effects of the war. This visit is a sign of the growing concern amongst policymakers about the gravity of this crisis. Join Uganda-CAN in thanking Ambassador Browning for his visit and asking for his leadership to help end the suffering of the people of northern Uganda. Click here now to write the Ambassador!

A GuluWalk in Buffalo, NY that was organized by Uganda-CAN, GuluWalk, and local community members on April 8th has received coverage in the Ugandan newspaper The Monitor. Read the article here.

The Uganda Conflict Action Network will soon launch a North American Speakers Bureau for northern Uganda. If you have visited, worked in or just know a great deal about northern Uganda and would be willing to speak about the crisis, please email Alison at ajones@ugandacan.org. Uganda-CAN will compile a list of speakers throughout the continent and then place it on our Web site. The time has come to empower and reinvigorate the many voices across this continent that know the people of northern Uganda and can be silent no longer about their continued suffering.

On Saturday, April 8th 250 people walked in solidarity with the child victims of northern Uganda during a GuluWalk in Buffalo, NY. The Mayor of Buffalo, Byron Brown, kicked off the event with words of encouragement, saying, "These [children] are not our neighbors in this community, in this country, but these are our neighbors in the world." The event was organized by a coalition of groups including Uganda-CAN, GuluWalk, and several local universities and high schools. After the 5k walk around Delaware Park, the participants watched several bands perform in a benefit concert at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

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Today, we're excited to launch the 2006 Northern Uganda Grassroots Action Packets. Download an action packet today and start organizing your own community to help end the war!

Uganda-CAN co-founder Peter Quaranto and GuluWalk co-founder Adrian Bradbury have co-authored an Op/Ed published in tomorrow's Daily Monitor newspaper. The article begins, "If we learned one thing from our trip, it is that the camps are a horrifically inadequate protection strategy. Yet, even with such mortality rates, the Government of Uganda refuses to declare the region a disaster area. The international community remains silent...So, we have one question: how many people have to die before the war in the north is treated as a priority?" The editorial concludes, "Tell us the number of people who need to die before someone is going to act with urgency. Tell us how many Acholi have to die for it to matter." Read the full editorial at The Daily Monitor.

An event organized by Uganda-CAN, GuluWalk, and several Buffalo-area peace and student groups received newspaper and radio coverage today in the Buffalo. This Saturday area residents will participate in a GuluWalk and benefit concert to aid child victims of war in northern Uganda. A local high school student/activist, Keenan Parker, published an article about the event in The Buffalo News. Also, John Kennedy and Kyle Young, two students from St. Bonaventure University, appeared on Infinity Radio's PM Buffalo show to talk about the event.