Rift Valley Institute’s Usalama Project (2013) South Kivu: identity, territory, and power in the eastern Congo. Usalama Project Report: Understanding Congolese Armed Groups. Rift Valley Institute, London, UK. ISBN 9781907431258
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Abstract
This Usalama report by Koen Vlassenroot outlines the historical dynamics behind the armed movements in South Kivu, focusing on the period before and leading up to the First Congo War. The province of South Kivu has been at the heart of the conflict in the eastern DRC. Since the end of the Second Congo War (1998–2003), the province’s potential to cause broader regional destabilization has decreased, but violent local conflicts have multiplied, fuelled by political opportunism and local struggles over land and power. The report concentrates on sources of local conflict but argues that these can only be understood when also concentrating on wider political, social, economic, and demographic processes at both national and regional levels.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Report) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/jsrp/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 The Rift Valley Institute |
| Divisions: | Justice and Security Research Programme |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2014 12:02 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 22:22 |
| Projects: | Rift Valley Institute’s Usalama Project |
| Funders: | Humanity United and Open Square |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/56585 |
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