Building on over 30 organizations from Uganda and around the world uniting this week in a message of support for ongoing efforts to salvage northern Uganda's peace process, Resolve Uganda is asking individuals to add their names to this impressive list. The goal is to get 10,000 signatures before tomorrow when the chief mediator and local leaders are scheduled to meet with LRA leader Joseph Kony. Click here to sign and share this petition with your friends, so that northern Ugandan leaders know they have the support of people around the world who still believe that peace is possible.

ReliefWeb has published the press release about the global NGO statement released today. It reads: As Ugandan civil society leaders meet to clarify transitional justice mechanisms in advance of their scheduled May 10th meeting with Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony, NGOs from around the world have united in a message of support for local efforts to salvage the peace process to end northern Uganda’s 22-year war. They are calling for patient and persistent engagement to ensure that humanitarian progress achieved during the Juba negotiations is sustained.

"Over one million displaced northern Ugandans continue to face the difficult task of trying to create a life in the absence of peace and in fear of a return to violence," says the statement released today by more than thirty humanitarian, faith-based and civil society organizations from Brussels, Geneva, Gulu, Kampala, London, New York, Oslo, Pader, Toronto and Washington DC.

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