If you visit the web site of Canada's Globe & Mail newspaper today, you'll see our Op-Ed featured, titled "Northern Uganda's Peace Process is Falling Apart: Where's Canada?" Read the article here.

A quick note: If you visit Reuters AlertNet's homepage today, you'll see our Op-Ed about "the bystander effect" featured. In the article, Adrian and I write, "Now more than ever, the Juba peace process needs a coordinated diplomatic surge to restore a sense of irreversibility. Such engagement could provide the mediating team with the resources and political support it needs to scale up its operations. Such advocacy could restrain rash military provocation, while restricting the rebels' exit options. Such leverage could expedite the LRA's final consultations, get them back to the table and establish a negotiating timeline with clear benchmarks, instead of arbitrary deadlines." Read the full Op-Ed here.

Adrian Bradbury of GuluWalk and I have an Op-Ed article in today's Sunday Monitor, titled "Not so innocent bystanders to the Juba talks." We write, "Psychologists explain it as the 'bystander effect.' In the face of an emergency, a person is less likely to intervene when others are present. It’s our nature to assume that the next person will act, thus relinquishing responsibility. That description sounds a lot like the international community’s response or lack thereof surrounding the faltering Juba peace process. The diplomatic corps, hampered by fatigue and impatience, has adopted a wait-and-see approach as events unfold. Yet, when everyone expects the other to take action, no one will."

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A quick note: every Friday on our sister campaign blog at Resolve Uganda, we do a "weekly roundup" of the latest news and developments in northern Uganda. You can sign up to get it via email at Resolve Uganda and view this week's here.

This from our sister campaign blog at Resolve Uganda: Congressional earmarks, "pork" as some like to negatively describe it, may often demonstrate government waste at its best (see: "the bridge to nowhere"), but this one we'll take. Thanks to your persistent emails and phone calls, the U.S. Congress committed $5 million in the 2008 budget to support the peace process in northern Uganda.

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