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Regional Interests in Instability in the Eastern DRC

Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the DRC, and the Need for a Wider Peace Process

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Regional Interests in Instability in the Eastern DRC

Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the DRC, and the Need for a Wider Peace Process

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Drawing on twenty-five years of on-the-ground experience and research, Stephanie Wolters reveals how the regional economic, political, social, and ideological interests and ambitions of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and the DRC itself help drive the conflict that has played out in the eastern DRC over the past twenty years.

At the same time, Wolters shows how over the past twenty years most conflict resolution and policy approaches have not accounted for these wider regional drivers of violence. For too long, peace processes have been blinkered into a narrow focus only on the drivers of violence within the DRC. Such oversights have not only failed to address many root causes of the conflict, but have also even allowed for the emergence of new Congolese and regional armed actors, all the while undermining relations between all four core Great Lakes countries. The cost has been borne almost exclusively by the DRC and its population, and it will be lifted only through a region-wide peace process.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Rwanda and the DRC
3. Uganda and the DRC
4. The Dominant Narrative
5. Conflict Dynamics
6. Regional and continental interventions in the DRC, 2011–23
7. Bilateral heavyweights: Angola and South Africa
8. International actors
9. Where to from here?
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 13 May 2027
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 256
ISBN 9781350554542
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 10 bw illus
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Stephanie Wolters

Stephanie Wolters is Director of Okapi Consulting…

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