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Title South Kivu: identity, territory, and power in the eastern Congo
Full text https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4187935; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4187935
Date 2013
Author(s) Vlassenroot, Koen
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.
Subject(s) Law and Political Science
Language eng
Publisher Rift Valley Institute
Type of publication book; info:eu-repo/semantics/book; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Format application/pdf
Source ISBN: 9781907431258
Rights I have transferred the copyright for this publication to the publisher; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Repository Gent - University of Gent
Added to C-A: 2014-04-14;11:14:45