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Betty Oyella Bigombe is a former Uganda government minister and consultant to the World Bank . She is an ethnic Acholi and has been involved in peace negotiations to end the insurgency of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) of Uganda since 1994 . As Of 2005 she was acting as chief mediator between the LRA and Government Of Uganda . She has a masters degree from the Kennedy School Of Government at Harvard University . As well as English and Acholi , she speaks Kiswahili and Japanese . Bigombe was elected a minister of parliament in 1986, a post she would hold until 1996. In 1988, President . In 1997, she left government service to take a fellowship award at the Harvard Institute for International Development. She then became a senior social scientist with the Postconflict unit at the World Bank and then a consultant to the Bank's Social Protection and Human Development units. She has co-authored several articles on post-conflict peacebuilding and the impact of conflict on women and children. Since at least March 2004, Bigombe has been the chief mediator in a new peace initiative with the Lord's Resistance Army . She is believed to be one of the few individuals with credibility to both sides. |
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