I like the intent and am generally hawkish when it comes to humanitarian interventions, but I do not think putting up a poster, getting bracelets, or donating charitably would be an effective use of my resources. We need global governing institutions that can capably deal with human rights abuses - not PR campaigns for one intervention when more than half of folks polled in the States already think foreign aid needs to be cut back on.
The ongoing, central African experience with the LRA serves as an example of nationalism and realpolitik, packaged more aesthetically as pragmatism, distracting the masses and elites alike from the common interests of humanity and giving them an excuse to neglect those interests whenever doing what is arguably the right course of action would threaten to be inconvenient. Enforcing basic human rights should be a globalized, not interest group, responsibility.
That's what the International Criminal Court stands for, and that's why the ICC indicted him and four other people nearly 7 years ago, and also issued an arrest order for surrender in 2005, an order that has been unsealed since 2005 as well. Hell, he's being accused on 33 counts of crimes (21 war crimes and 12 crimes against humanity). This guy is NOT a good person, of course.
The biggest problem, IMO, is that only with true cooperation from all states parties the ICC will actually have a chance to bring the most serious criminals in the world to justice. In this case, for example, it was Uganda (an ICC member) itself that referred the case of the LRA to the court, since the country didn't have the necessary resources to bring those criminals to justice. However, all of them have basically disappeared ever since, and if Kony is still in Uganda, then there's a good chance authorities know that and are disrespecting their legal obligation to surrender Kony to the ICC. Oh, and considering that the neighbouring countries of the DRC, Kenya and Tanzania are also ICC members, things get even uglier.
That makes me remember of mr. Omar al-Bashir, which is wanted by the ICC for genocide and has travelled to ICC member states a few times now (Kenya and Malawi, IIRC). In all cases those countries refused to arrest and surrender al-Bashir saying they had no business arresting a president of a sovereign country, in clear violation of the Rome Statute, which makes the immunity of heads of state irrelevant for the persecution of the crimes within its jurisdiction (even though there's still some legal controversy here...). In the end, though, the political factor still makes things hard for the ICC to go harder after the crimes within its jurisdiction, and the fact that the United States, Russia and China have been running away from it for the last 10 years make things even harder.
