This view drastically alters the understanding of the situation of the Ugandan abductees, as represented in the documentary Invisible Children. While there are definitely issues of justice at work in the scenario, there is also a fundamental failure within the communities to protect their children from the rebels, and a failure in the relationship with these rebels to help everyone work towards each other's mutual benefice. Though the rebel army is ostensibly attempting to overthrow the Ugandan government, it appears as though many if not most of the rebels' acts of violence are directed towards the poor and underdeveloped populations form which the rebels themselves came, many of them as abducted children themselves -- the majority of them still children, in fact, as few of them live into adulthood and new kidnapped conscripts...
An understanding of the true ills at work in the society that produce and perpetuate this rebel element must be achieved before the situation can be ended, and this understanding must come on emotional level in addition to -- and perhaps even instead of -- an intellectual level.
Rather than attempting to face the rebels in open conflict, which is the traditional military/governmental method and what is called for by the ethics of justice, ethics of care would deal more directly with the results of the rebels' actions. Building stronger communities with greater senses of shared responsibility for individual success would make it more difficult for the rebels to abduct children in the first place, serving to interrupt the cycle of brutal oppression that has existed for decades.
