The M23's Fights in the DRC: An Iceberg's Tip of an Intended Yet Resolvable Chaos
Institutional Affiliation
Université Catholique du Congo (UCC), Université de Kinshasa, Institut Supérieur de Techniques Médicales
Start Date
2-11-2023 1:30 PM
End Date
2-11-2023 3:00 PM
Proposal Type
Presentation
Proposal Format
On-campus
Proposal Description
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) suffers repeated wars in its provinces of Ituri, North-Kivu, South-Kivu, Tanganyika since its invasion by coalesced armies of Burundi-Rwanda-Uganda in 1996. But Rwanda, with its ethnic Tutsi-centered politics and its kingship legacy of hegemonistic and colonizing mindset, remains the regional leading actor of such a chaos. Rwanda uses the genocide against the Tutsis by their fellow Hutu citizens as an alibi and excuse for repeatedly invading the DRC and occupying it with the tacit approval of major Western Powers. Local leading agents of wars (five now) are some ethnonationalist leaders of Rwandan origins self-named hereafter named Banyarwanda/ Banyamulenge leaders, or Bany2, are sponsored by President Kagame of Rwanda. Their intended but hidden outcomes are to achieve statehood, annexation to Rwanda of DRC eastern provinces or, at least, a Bany2’s special ethnic status in DRC. Their Western sponsors’ goal is plundering the DRC’s natural resources. This presentation is intended to provide to the Peace and Conflict Studies community key elements and findings in a short list of 12 main factors that interact together to sustain the chronic instability in DRC. It intends also to play the role of policy note for world key decision-makers on the DRC situation. It is the result a participant observation and directed qualitative content analysis of documents on the conflict by a DRC’s civil society leader and scholar in conflict, holocaust studies & genocide prevention. In fact, after the introduction, it lists those 12 factors followed by some suggested solutions.
The M23's Fights in the DRC: An Iceberg's Tip of an Intended Yet Resolvable Chaos
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) suffers repeated wars in its provinces of Ituri, North-Kivu, South-Kivu, Tanganyika since its invasion by coalesced armies of Burundi-Rwanda-Uganda in 1996. But Rwanda, with its ethnic Tutsi-centered politics and its kingship legacy of hegemonistic and colonizing mindset, remains the regional leading actor of such a chaos. Rwanda uses the genocide against the Tutsis by their fellow Hutu citizens as an alibi and excuse for repeatedly invading the DRC and occupying it with the tacit approval of major Western Powers. Local leading agents of wars (five now) are some ethnonationalist leaders of Rwandan origins self-named hereafter named Banyarwanda/ Banyamulenge leaders, or Bany2, are sponsored by President Kagame of Rwanda. Their intended but hidden outcomes are to achieve statehood, annexation to Rwanda of DRC eastern provinces or, at least, a Bany2’s special ethnic status in DRC. Their Western sponsors’ goal is plundering the DRC’s natural resources. This presentation is intended to provide to the Peace and Conflict Studies community key elements and findings in a short list of 12 main factors that interact together to sustain the chronic instability in DRC. It intends also to play the role of policy note for world key decision-makers on the DRC situation. It is the result a participant observation and directed qualitative content analysis of documents on the conflict by a DRC’s civil society leader and scholar in conflict, holocaust studies & genocide prevention. In fact, after the introduction, it lists those 12 factors followed by some suggested solutions.