Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe

Warner, Zach

doi:10.1080/03056244.2011.631329

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“…These aspects have been taken up by those who have focused on the political and regional roots of conflict from different perspectives (Marriage 2013;Ndaywel è Nziem 1998;Ngoie Tshibambe 2013;Nzongola-Ntalaja 2002;Prunier 2009;Raeymaekers 2014;Stearns 2011;Vlassenroot 2002;Vlassenroot and Raeymaekers 2004a). Most of this literature, however, is still based on the paradigm of the failed neopatrimonial state.…”

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“…In this view, it is not just state actors like Rwanda and Uganda who have affected the development of events, but also their interconnections with their corresponding diasporas in each country, their common and conflicting commercial interests, their links to non-state actors, including armed groups, as well as their common security threats. Regionalists also consider other factors that have to do with global politics, the global economy and social hierarchies (Ndaywel è Nziem 1998;Prunier 2009;Raeymaekers 2014;Vlassenroot and Raeymaekers 2004a).…”

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“…7 An emphasis on regional actors is seen in Braeckman (2003). An emphasis on internal factors is seen in Lemarchand (2003); Prunier (2009); Turner (2007). 8 Etienne Tshisekedi of the UDPS was elected prime minister, though overthrown by Mobutu three months later (Nzongola-Ntalaja 2002: 195).…”

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“…In all manner of ways, the suppressed and apparently docile institutions of the governed started to subvert and in some cases to demolish the states that had been imposed on them. (1993: 430) All of these factors make Prunier (2009) connect the conflict not just with its past, but with the process of transformation that Africa as a whole is undergoing in the form of a second modernity. Yet the tendency to study Africa as a case of neglect, war and desperation has been prominent in articulating the causes of conflict and in neglecting an account of politics and resistance.…”

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“…The concept of ' Africa's World War' or, more specifically, ' Africa's first World War' 2 has been applied to the conflict that took place between 1998 and 2003 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Although the book retains a focus on the DRC, following Gerard Prunier (2009) it uses the concept of ' Africa's World War' to emphasise the transformative nature of a series of conflicts that took place in the mid-1990s in the central and Great Lakes regions, and that have to do with historical, global, regional and local factors. The examination of resistance in this case allows for the politicisation of the conflict and the players involved, looking at the role that popular classes' rejection of historical conditions of domination has played in the outbreak and continuation of the conflicts until today.…”

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Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-Making

Heredia¹

2017

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Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making addresses debates on liberal peace and the policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. Examining the case of ‘Africa’s World War’ in the DRC, it locates resistance in the experiences of war, peacebuilding and state-making by exploring discourses, violence and everyday forms of survival as acts that attempt to challenge or mitigate such experiences. The analysis of resistance offers a possibility to bring the historical and sociological aspects of both peacebuilding and the case of the DRC, providing new nuanced understanding of these processes and the particular case.

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Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-Making

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2017

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Responsibility boundaries and the governance of global value chains: The interplay of efficiency, ethical, and institutional pressures in global strategy

DeBerge

2023

Global Strategy Journal

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Research SummaryI explore the relationship of firm global strategy and global value chain (GVC) governance, within a context of expanding responsibility boundaries for unethical practices in the value chain. Specifically, focusing on the tantalum supply chain within the digital electronics GVC, I conduct a case‐based process study that contextualizes the different strategic responses of three manufacturers of tantalum capacitors when faced with similar efficiency, ethical, and institutional pressures. Integrating the GVC and global strategy literatures, I find that structural inertia in GVCs limits the efficacy of strategies that preserve, rather than alter, the governance structure, instead requiring a strategic restructuring carried out by individual firms, whose internalization of responsibility boundaries is encouraged by the institutionalization of these boundaries through public policy.Managerial SummaryUnethical practices within global value chains are increasingly becoming the responsibility of firms with no direct control over such practices, leading to growing pressures for firms to alter their global strategies to meet social and institutional demands. Research has focused on strategies that preserve the structure of the value chain, despite questions about the efficacy of these approaches. By looking at the case of “conflict minerals” within the digital electronics value chain, this study finds that inherent flaws in value chain structures, which managers can identify, require individual firms to implement strategies that change the structure of the value chain, specifically by increasing ownership and control over the linkages where unethical practices occur and encouraging public policies that add value to these strategies.

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Violence, intimacy and veins of madness in a fraught border city

Hunt,

Batumike,

Cirhuza

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Africa

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This article considers the intimate, the violent and the psychopathological in Bukavu, an eastern Congolese border city known for rape and war. A phenomenological focus pries open tensions in this ruinous, neoliberal ‘boom town’, frictions related to mental health, patterns of resort, and derangement. Ethnographic portraits from co-produced fieldnotes reveal family and street dynamics and a few adaptive, public figures of madness. Bukavu knows unhinged, delirious, psychotic people and PTSD infrastructures in this ‘trauma zone’. Patterns of psychosis go with ‘vivacity’, a Foucauldian word. The non-scientific term madness points to politics and the everyday, with many mad persons roaming the streets with performances. Intimacy enables rethinking this city, where ways of telling and knowing madness speak to agitation, kinship, strangeness and ordinary matters of sleep, dress and faecal matter.

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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe

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Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-Making

Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-Making

Responsibility boundaries and the governance of global value chains: The interplay of efficiency, ethical, and institutional pressures in global strategy

Violence, intimacy and veins of madness in a fraught border city

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