Churches and Peace-Building in Eastern DR Congo and Northern Uganda

By using church networks as a platform, different actors have tried to involve in peace-building processes in Northern Uganda and Eastern DR Congo. This church-led peace-building approach is legitimised in part with reference to the unique position the church holds locally in these societies, and in part because their leaders are held in high esteem nationally and transnationally. In this article, we examine and compare church-led peace involvement in these two regions of the Great Lakes region from the local to the transnational, by asking how these two cases differ and what they have in common.