The ENOUGH Project has released its latest report, titled "A New Strategy for Peace in Northern Uganda and the LRA." They write, "LRA leader Joseph Kony’s failure to sign a peace deal in April drove a nail into the coffin of the Juba peace process—a process that is grinding to an unsuccessful end. The talks have certainly contributed to northern Uganda’s current state of relative peace and created a mechanism to address tensions between the people in the North and the southern-dominated government in Kampala. But without real leverage and without a direct channel of negotiations to Kony himself, the LRA leader has exploited this last year of negotiations..." It's unlikely that local leaders continuing to work tirelessly and trekking out to meet Kony this weekend would share their suggestion that the peace process is dead, but indeed groups of LRA rebels have allegedly abducted between 300-500 people in the region over the last three months.

ENOUGH writes, "International leverage must be forged through the development of a credible regional military strategy to apprehend Kony and the other two LRA commanders indicted by the ICC." The key word there is "credible," because past military offensives have put civilians in the crossfire and incited violent backlash. Not to mention failing to apprehend Kony and his other leaders. Simultaneously though, ENOUGH writes that IDP return and reconstruction of the war-torn region should be supported, while the Government restore its relationship with northerners by addressing root causes of the conflict. Read the full report here.