History Repeating Itself: The DRC and the UN Security Council

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Title:	History Repeating Itself: The DRC and the UN Security Council
Author:	Hawkins, Virgil
Year:	2003
Periodical:	African Security Review
Volume:	12
Issue:	4
Pages:	47-55
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Subjects:	civil wars military intervention UN Security Council peacekeeping forces international relations History and Exploration Politics and Government Military, Defense and Arms
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2003.9627250
Abstract:	The response of the UN Security Council to the massive world war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is characterized by an abundance of rhetoric and a deficit of concrete action. When it has acted, its actions have often been inappropriate, with the token deployment of lightly armed peacekeepers into a volatile area of ongoing conflict. In choosing such an option, it has shown how little political will there is for serious engagement, but also how little the Council has learnt from its own history. This paper analyses the Council's response to the conflict in the DRC, separating the rhetoric and the appearance of action from concrete measures designed to realize some form of conflict resolution. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]