Neoliberal globalisation and the triple crisis of 'modernisation' in Africa: Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa

Moore, David

doi:10.1080/01436590120099713

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“…Movements against the continuation of Mobutuism led to what some have described as Africa's First World War and as 'an old-fashioned war of liberation'. 9 The 1998 uprising by the Rassemblement Congolais pour la De´mocratie (RCD), supported by Rwanda and Uganda, caused Kabila to call on his Southern African neighbours, Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe, for military support. Seven countries and 10 rebel movements were involved in the fighting.…”

Section: Background To the Conflictsmentioning

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Challenges to peace: conflict resolution in the great lakes region of Africa

Daley¹

2006

Third World Quarterly

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Efforts to bring peace and reconstruction to the Central African region have been fashioned by contemporary conflict resolution models that have a standard formula of peace negotiations, with a trajectory of ceasefire agreements, transitional governments, demilitarization, constitutional reform and ending with democratic elections. Local dynamics and the historical and multifaceted nature of the conflicts are rarely addressed. Furthermore, participants in the peace process are restricted to representatives of political parties, the state and rebel movements, to the exclusion of civil society. Using as examples the conflicts and peace processes in three Great Lakes countriesRwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo-the paper contends that contemporary global frameworks for peacemaking and peace building that rest on the acceptance of neoliberal political and economic models cannot lay the foundations for the conditions necessary for sustainable peace. This necessitates the utilisation of a more inclusive concept of peace, the starting point of which has to be the emancipation of African humanity.

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Section: Background To the Conflictsmentioning

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Challenges to peace: conflict resolution in the great lakes region of Africa

Daley¹

2006

Third World Quarterly

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“…Those constitutional and formal rights were received with much joy and hope, in the belief that the gross inequalities and brutalities of the past had been replaced by substantive citizenship for all. But the post-apartheid government's rapid shift from the redistributive agenda of the Reconstruction and Development Programs (RDP) to a market-driven growth agenda known as Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) has brought profound disillusionment (see Cheru 1997;Bond 2000;Moore 2001). The neoliberal development framework that was adopted relies on private-sector principles of cost recovery through users' fees: 3 basically, 'no fee, no service'.…”

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Feminist praxis, citizenship and informal politics: Reflections on South Africa's anti-eviction campaign

Miraftab

2006

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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“…This neoliberal orientation (Moore, 2001;Peet, 2002), which asserts that social welfare is best advanced through 'the maximisation of entrepreneurial freedoms within an institutional framework characterised by private property rights, individual liberty, unencumbered markets and free trade' (Harvey, 2007, p. 22), led to the adoption of an increasingly market-based land reform program. Yet, claims that market-based land reform achieves optimal equity and efficiency (see for example Boudreaux, 2010) are profoundly challenged by the experience of South Africa (Lahiff, 2007;Miraftab and Wills, 2005;Hall, 2004a).…”

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