.... with the Kony 2012 campaign refocusing the attention on the LRA, some activists have raised concerns about the methods Invisible Children has used to raise awareness.
A request for comment from Invisible Children was not immediately returned.
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Visible Children,” a blog devoted to questioning the efforts of Invisible Children, wrote Wednesday that while Kony is an “evil man,” the KONY 2012 campaign’s social media tactics weren’t helping.
“These problems are highly complex, not one-dimensional and, frankly, aren’t of the nature that can be solved by postering, film-making and changing your Facebook profile picture, as hard as that is to swallow,” the blog wrote.
In November, a Foreign Affairs
article more pointedly challenged the tactics used by Invisible Children and other nonprofits working in the region. “Such organizations have manipulated facts for strategic purposes, exaggerating the scale of LRA abductions and murders and emphasizing the LRA’s use of innocent children as soldiers, and portraying Kony — a brutal man, to be sure — as uniquely awful, a Kurtz-like embodiment of evil,” the magazine wrote.
One of Invisible Children’s partner organizations, Resolve,
responded to the accusation at the time in a blog post, calling it a “serious charge ... published with no accompanying substantiation.” ....
