Today, Western intervention is a ubiquitous feature of violent
conflict in Africa. Humanitarian aid agencies, community
peacebuilders, microcredit promoters, children's rights activists,
the World Bank, the International Criminal Court, the U.S.
military, and numerous others have involved themselves in African
conflicts, all claiming to bring peace and human rights to
situations where they are desperately needed. However, according to
Adam Branch, Western intervention is not the solution to violence
in Africa but, instead, can be a major part of the problem-often
undermining human rights and even prolonging war and intensifying
anti-civilian violence. Based on an extended case study of Western
intervention into northern Uganda's twenty-year civil war, and
drawing on Branch's own extensive research and human rights
activism there, this book lays bare the reductive understandings
motivating Western intervention in Africa, the inadequate tools it
insists on employing, its refusal to be accountable to African
citizenries, and, most important, its counterproductive
consequences for peace, human rights, and justice. In short, Branch
demonstrates how Western interventions undermine the efforts
Africans themselves are undertaking to end violence in their own
communities. The book does not end with critique, however.
Motivated by a commitment to global justice, it proposes concrete
changes for Western humanitarian, peacebuilding, and justice
interventions as well as a new normative framework for re-orienting
the Western approach to violent conflict in Africa around a
practice of genuine solidarity. "A key strength of the book is its
ability to analyse and reveal common patterns in seemingly
disparate and complex empirical instances of counterproductive
human rights interventions in Uganda. ... [T]his book should be
required reading for all those working on various themes in Africa
today."-The Journal of Modern African Studies "This book provides a
pessimistic, but much needed, critique of the history of foreign
intervention in Northern Uganda. ... Responsible discussions of
foreign policy must consider the ways in which 'great power
politics' can hurt people in the name of protection; this book is
an excellent place to start that discussion." -The Christian
Science Monitor
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