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The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)

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– Winner of the 2012 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Making improvements to World Order
– Winner of the 2011 Chadwick F. Alger Prize, International Studies Association

The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention all over the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s unsuccessful transition from war to peace and democracy (2003-2006). Grassroots rivalries over land, resources, and political power motivated widespread violence. Then again, a dominant peacebuilding culture shaped the intervention strategy in a way that precluded action on local conflicts, in the end dooming the international efforts to finish the deadliest conflict since World War II. Most international actors interpreted continued fighting as the consequence of national and regional tensions on my own. UN team of workers and diplomats viewed intervention on the macro levels as their only legitimate responsibility. The dominant culture constructed local peacebuilding as such an unimportant, unfamiliar, and unmanageable task that neither shocking events nor resistance from choose individuals could convince international actors to reevaluate their working out of violence and intervention.

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