The BBC has a country profile on Uganda.

Allafrica.com has the news from an African perspective.

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre has background and information about those who fled or were forced into camps during the violence.

For more information on this subject see Refugees International's Uganda section.

British aid agency Oxfam also produced a report on displacement in 2007 The Building Blocks Of Sustainable Peace which has good background and looks at the views of displaced people towards the peace process.

For health and mortality figures for internally displaced people see a controversial July 2005 survey by Uganda's health ministry, the International Rescue Committee and several U.N. agencies.

A web special by U.N. news agency IRIN on life in northern Uganda, When The Sun Sets We Start To Worry, gives good multimedia coverage of the plight of civilians caught up in the violence.

Belgian-based think thank International Crisis Group provides a comprehensive overview of the conflict and has useful reports on the peace process.

Human Rights Watch has reports and statements on rights issues, such as the LRA's use of child soldiers, in its Uganda section.

For a focus on children, see a special report from International Rescue Committee.

In 2007, former Reuters journalist Matthew Green published a book about the conflict called "Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted". AlertNet has an interview with Green about his search for LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony.

For more on Karamoja violence, the Feinstein International Center has a useful report: The Scramble For Cattle, Power And Guns In Karamoja.