A5056535190- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Mining and Resource Management
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Natural Resources and Economic Development
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Legal and cultural studies analysis
- African Studies and Ethnography
- Cambodian History and Society
- Migration, Identity, and Health
Abstract This article explores how decentralisation policy and specifically the establishment of communes rurales in DR Congo turned into a profoundly destabilising juncture, shaking existing governance arrangements. In particular, we examine this has led to reshuffle power renegotiation public authoritiy. By analysing impact on construction competition over authority three Congolese towns – Rubaya, Minembwe Fungurume demonstrate is deeply politicised, with conflicting actors mobilising...
The article analyses how the 2018 in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) contributed to a further opening up democratic space and shared expressions sentiments citizenship. Through an ethnography electoral process South Kivu province, we investigate claiming rights that come with citizenship people’s political identity, shape are being shaped by processes. We introduce notion citoyenneté capture dynamic civic mobilization positioning. In case DRC, concept encapsulates ideas, positions actions...
In this paper, we investigate the nexus between ethnicity and violent conflict in Congo. We make three interlocking arguments. First, argue that is a defining political resource Congo’s politics conflicts, which call ‘ethnic capital’. Second, high value of ethnic capital sustained by engrained discourses practices ethnicity. These permeate order, shape people’s understanding politics, identities, have contributed to formation an unstable, centrifugal, fragmentary order. Third,...