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From the 1980s until the late 2000s the northern region of Uganda endured a reign of terror imposed by the LRA & its founder Joseph Kony. The LRA movement's brutal tactics - abducting boys for training as soldiers, kidnapping girls as officers' sexual partners, raping, maiming & killing innocent villagers - captured the world's attention through social media campaigns. Far less visible was the creation of a new organization to combat its destructive effects by leaders of the Protestant, Catholic, & Muslim communities in the Acholi region. Overcoming centuries of mistrust, they came together to relieve the suffering the LRA inflicted, to bring government & rebels to the negotiating table, & to assist in post-conflict recovery. This study describes the work of the Acholi Religious Leaders' Peace Initiative and its contributions to resolving one of the most horrific conflicts in recent history.

Ethical reflection on the practice of war stands in a long tradition in Western philosophy and theology, a tradition which begins with the writings of Plato and Augustine and encompasses accounts of justified warfare offered by writers from the Medieval period to the present. Ethical reflection on nuclear war is of necessity a more recent theme. The past few years have seen an enormous increase in popular as well as scholarly concern with nuclear issues, and philosophers have joined theologians in exploring the moral issues surrounding the harnessing of atomic forces in the service of war.