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Title:Cows and guns: cattle-related conflict and armed violence in Fizi and Itombwe, eastern DR Congo
Authors:Verweijen, JudithISNI
Brabant, Justine
Year:2017
Periodical:Journal of Modern African Studies (ISSN 0022-278X)
Volume:55
Issue:1
Pages:1-27
Language:English
Geographic term:Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Subjects:cattle
theft
militias
land conflicts
External link:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000823
Abstract:This paper analyses the role of cattle in the entwined dynamics of conflict and violence in the Fizi and Itombwe region of South Kivu province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. On the one hand, agropastoral conflict intensifies armed mobilisation, allowing armed groups to draw upon particular conflict narratives that generate popular and elite support. It also creates incentives for armed actors to engage in cattle-looting, or the defence against it, for both symbolic and material reasons. On the other hand, the presence of armed forces and the use of violence profoundly shape agropastoral conflicts. Importantly, they change the perceived stakes of these conflicts, and hamper their resolution. By showing that the relations between cattle-related conflict and armed activity are indirect, complex and mutual, the paper refines both theories on agropastoral conflict and those highlighting the role of local conflicts in fuelling violence in the eastern Congo. Bibliogr., note, sum. [Journal abstract]
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