Ending the cycle of violence: is peace possible in the Congo?

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Title:	Ending the cycle of violence: is peace possible in the Congo?
Author:	Moffet, Luke J.F.
Year:	2008
Periodical:	East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights
Volume:	14
Issue:	2
Pages:	459-475
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Subjects:	peacebuilding social problems civil wars
Abstract:	This paper comments on the underlying problems of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the initiatives taken during the peace process, its achievements and failures. It makes a brief comparison with other jurisdictions emerging from conflict, and argues that serious underlying problems - economic exploitation, ethnicity, impunity and dealing with militias, demobilization and poverty - remain which have been either inadequately addressed by the peace process or not addressed at all. Such a failure threatens to undermine the progress already achieved. The paper concludes by looking at the lessons that can be learned from this unique and complex conflict and considers the implications for the future. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]