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The article examines the LRA's history, leadership, and of greatest import, tactics with special reference to its use of women and children as the basis for creating a 'new Acholi'. The LRA is put into the context of other movements in different places and times who seek to build a new world along tribal or neo-tribal lines, often by means of genocide.
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The article describes in detail the Lords Resistance Army as described in the monograph Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism: Terrorism’s Fifth Wave. London: Routledge, January 2010. The book
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This page is a summary of: The Lord’s Resistance Army: Millennialism, Violence and the Timeless Dream, Religious Studies and Theology, July 2009, Equinox Publishing,
DOI: 10.1558/rsth.v28i1.95.
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