Robert Gersony is an American consultant known for his reports on conflict-affected countries, in particular in

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

. His most famous work, the 1994 " Gersony Report", was never actually finished. The "Gersony Report" was suppressed by the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...

, who had originally commissioned it, because it had reached the politically embarrassing conclusion that the

Rwandan Patriotic Front The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF–Inkotanyi, french: Front patriotique rwandais, FPR) is the ruling political party in Rwanda. Led by President Paul Kagame, the party has governed the country since its armed wing defeated government forces, wi ...

, which had taken control of the country after the

Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed H ...

, was carrying out politically motivated mass killing. ''The Anguish of Northern Uganda'', a report commissioned by the US Embassy in Kampala, is arguably the most cited source on the

Lord's Resistance Army insurgency The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency is an ongoing guerrilla campaign waged by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) insurgent group since 1987. Currently, there is low-level LRA activity in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Ce ...

. in 01 Mar 2004: Monograph No 99: ''Behind the Violence. The War in Northern Uganda'', Zachary Lomo and Lucy Hovil

Published works

* "Rebels Create Havoc in Mozambique." ''Cultural Survival Quarterly''. Volume 12 #2 1988. pp. 31–40. * for Bureau of Refugee Programs,

United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government responsible for the country's fore ...

, April 1988 * for Bureau of Refugee Programs,

, August 1989 * for United States Embassy-Kampala and USAID Mission-Kampala, August 1997 * '' for

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International, October 2003

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