The Continuing Trouble with the Congo

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    The Continuing Trouble with the Congo

    Dans l’Est du Congo, la guerre, la guerre et encore la guerre et un interminable calvaire pour la population depuis vingt ans

    http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/181-congo/51808-the-continuing-trouble-with-the-congo-.html

    By Séverine Autesserre

    African Arguments

    August 1, 2012

    The DRC hosts the second-largest and second-most expensive United Nations peacekeeping operation in the world. However, this extensive international mission has not brought sustainable peace to the country. This African Arguments article argues that the reason for this failure is that foreign interveners follow a top-down approach. They try to resolve the conflict at the national and international levels while ignoring local tensions that jeopardize the macro-level settlements. Diplomats, donors, and United Nations staff moreover regard intervention at the macro levels as their only legitimate responsibility.