From ‘conflict minerals’ to peace? Reviewing mining reforms, gender, and state performance in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

The Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo:

The purpose of this essay is twofold. First is to analyze the role of insurgent groups in the anti-Kabila civil war in the Congo within the statist approach, which endows the state with considerable autonomy in defining the nature of states’ preferences and developing solutions to them. The essay also contends that the statist approach is not sufficient, however. Once enmeshed in a stalemated w...

Democratic Republic of Congo

Programme outcome: The IFRC 2010 support strategy and plan for the Red Cross of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Red Cross of DRC) was based on the National Society’s (NS) 20092013 Strategic Development Plan and was designed to help the NS provide vulnerable communities with life-saving first aid, clean water and sanitation, health and hygiene promotion, HIV/AIDS support, sexual and gender bas...

Status of Grauer’s gorilla and chimpanzees in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo 1 STATUS OF GRAUER’S GORILLA AND CHIMPANZEES IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

HIV Treatment in a Conflict Setting: Outcomes and Experiences from Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

May 2007 | Volume 4 | Issue 5 | e129 Introduction Armed confl ict and HIV infection have had a profound impact on the societies of sub-Saharan Africa. The number of countries engaged in armed confl ict has fl uctuated, totalling 24 African states in 2004 [1]; most of these confl icts are intrastate and chronic. The region also bears the world’s highest burden of HIV, with more than 25 million p...

Liberalism and Constructivism: Peace and DDR in the Democratic Republic of the Congo*

Throughout Africa, there has been a rising amount of civil unrest. The continent has been plagued with genocide, resource wars, ethnic conflict and civil war. In recent years, the world has seen multiple efforts to create peace throughout Africa. While there have been many peace accords signed throughout the region, the success of creating stable peace has not been achieved. In response to the ...