Ugandan rebels say they have come home to find a way to get International Criminal Court arrest warrants against four of their top commanders set aside.
A rebel team arrived in the capital, Kampala, on Thursday for an historic first visit before heading north to discuss justice and reconciliation.
Despite last year's truce to end the Lord's Resistance Army's 20-year war in the north, the region remains insecure.
An aid agency says two of its employees were killed there on Wednesday.
The Paris-based Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development said unidentified gunmen attacked a vehicle carrying the aid workers in Amuru district.
A third member of staff was injured while a fourth was able to escape.
Sticking point
The LRA's chief negotiator Martin Ojul said the crucial next step in the peace process was to get the ICC warrants set aside so that the LRA leaders are given the confidence to go to Kampala.
Why peace is coming
"What we are looking for is a way out on how we can handle the ICC issue and the warrant of arrest," Mr Ojul told the BBC's Network Africa programme.
He said he wanted the ICC warrants withdrawn so that these issues can be handled "within the country".
Mr Ojul said he was looking forward to discussing the issue of justice and accountability with President Yoweri Museveni.
He said he would stress to the president the commitment of the LRA negotiating team and that of the movement's military commanders to the peace process.
LRA leader Joseph Kony remains at a rebel camp across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He has refused to take part in long-running talks in southern Sudan unless the ICC arrest war crimes warrants issued two years ago for four LRA commanders are dropped.
The BBC's Sarah Grainger in Kampala says accountability is a key sticking point in the negotiations.
Traditional forms of justice have been suggested as an alternative to the ICC - these are likely be much less punitive.
In the coming days, the LRA representatives will consult the general public in northern Uganda on how they would like to see justice done.
On Friday morning, the delegation visited parliament and saw other government officials to explore ways of ending the conflict.
Vital
In his interview, Mr Ojul again dismissed reports of a split in the LRA as alleged by former member Opiyo Makasi who arrived at Entebbe airport on Thursday evening after surrendering last week in DR Congo.
During their rebellion, the rebels used the abduction of children and mutilation of adults to bolster their cause.
More than one million people were driven from their homes.
In recent years, with dwindling support from Sudan, the LRA fighters have been on the run.
The BBC's Africa analyst Martin Plaut says finding sanctuary in remote areas of DR Congo and funding their operations from diamond mines, the rebel movement is a shadow of its former self.
But ending their rebellion is still vital if peace is to come to northern Uganda, he says.
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