Social Science Research Council

The trial of the Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo finally opened in The Hague yesterday. He is charged on six counts of recruiting and using child soldiers in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Those listening to the opening statement of the ICC Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, might have been forgiven for [...]

Suddenly Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army is back in the international news. Predictably, it is not because they have surrendered or the commanders captured and taken to The Hague to face trial, but because they are killing people again.
The LRA is now abducting and terrorising in eastern Congo and the Mundri area of southern Sudan. Once [...]