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ELI5 "Kony 2012"
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Honestly, the video that's going around is pretty self-explanitory (and even includes, funnily enough, a scene where the narrator explains the campaign to his young son), but if you don't have 30 minutes to spend:

There is a man who lives in central Africa, usually in Uganda, named Joseph Kony. Kony appeared as a public figure in a time where many different armed groups were fighting each other for control of Uganda (the government was overthrown by a militant group in 1985 and ruled for all of 6 months before being overthrown by a different militant group). When the leader of the group he was a part of died, Kony took control of a large part of it. He claims to wish to establish an independent nation based on Christian and African ideas.

However, as far as we can tell, he doesn't actually want this. See, Kony does terrible things. He and his army hide in the jungle, occasionally coming out to pillage towns, torture & scar people, and kidnap children. Kony takes these children in and forces them to become soldiers for him.

Kony 2012 is a bunch of people who think that the main reason that Kony gets away with doing this is because most people in the Euro-American world don't know who he is and what he does. They hope that by raising awareness, they will put pressure on western government to help catch him. They believe that the Ugandan army wants to capture Kony, but simply does not have the resources, technology, and knowhow to find him in the dense jungles of Africa.