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Joseph Kony, Yoweri Museveni, Joachim Chissano, Riek Machar Teny, northern Uganda, Southern Sudan, Sudan People's Liberation Movement / Army (SPLM/A), Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Juba Peace Talks, Third Party Intervention, Third Party Mediation . Even before the final stocks are taken, there is no doubting the damning verdict that Third Party Intervention & Mediation -the outsiders looking in-failed in northern Uganda. The last nail on the coffin of third party mediation, aka the Juba Peace Process , was dealt by Uganda's decision -at the behest of the USA- to cobble together a coalition of DRC Congo and Southern Sudan, for high noon showdown in Garamba with Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). However, the failures as processes, can be accounted for by five inter-related components of actors and their framing of the northern Uganda conflict. 1. First on the list is superpower-small-states politics , and the structure of global inter-states and multi...

ESTRAGON: Where shall we go? VLADIMIR : I don't Know. Silence . ESTRAGON : Oh yes, let's go far away from here. VLADIMIR : We can't. ESTRAGON : Why not? VLADIMIR : We have to come back tomorrow. ESTRAGON : What for? VLADIMIR : To wait for Godot. ESTRAGON : Ah! ( Silence .)He didn't come? VLADIMIR : No. ESTRAGON : And now it's too late. VLADIMIR : Yes, now it's night. Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot. Faber and Faber, 1965 (1956); Act II, p.92 News that the Juba Peace Talks on northern Uganda has collpsed, is a mixed bag of good and bad. The bad news is that, this prolongs the suffering of the people of northern Uganda, many of whom had already broken through the paddocks of concentration camps to return to their ancestral lands. Moreover, the collapse of the talks, if true, plays into the hands of war-mongers and those who have been able to exploit the war economy, who will try to alarm and frighten the population back into camps to serve their ow...