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Periodical article |
Title: | Local Violence, National Peace? Postwar 'Settlement' in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (2003-2006) |
Author: | Autesserre, Séverine |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review |
Volume: | 49 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 1-29 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
Subjects: | History and Exploration Law, Human Rights and Violence Politics and Government Inter-African Relations Ethnic and Race Relations Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0007 |
Abstract: | This article develops a conceptual analysis of the dynamics of violence during the transition from war to peace and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 2003 and 2006. I locate the sources, at the local, national, and regional levels, of continued local violence during this transition. Through an analysis of the situation in the Kivus, I illustrate how local dynamics interacted with the national and regional dimensions of the conflict. I demonstrate that, after a national and regional settlement was reached, some local conflicts over land and political power increasingly became self-sustaining and autonomous from the national and regional tracks. |