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The War That Doesn't Say Its Name - The Unending Conflict in the Congo (Hardcover)
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The War That Doesn't Say Its Name - The Unending Conflict in the Congo (Hardcover)
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Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of
international intervention Well into its third decade, the military
conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a
"forever war"-a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local
feuds over power and identity. Millions have died in one of the
worst humanitarian calamities of our time. The War That Doesn't Say
Its Name investigates the most recent phase of this conflict,
asking why the peace deal of 2003-accompanied by the largest United
Nations peacekeeping mission in the world and tens of billions in
international aid-has failed to stop the violence. Jason Stearns
argues that the fighting has become an end in itself, carried
forward in substantial part through the apathy and complicity of
local and international actors. Stearns shows that regardless of
the suffering, there has emerged a narrow military bourgeoisie of
commanders and politicians for whom the conflict is a source of
survival, dignity, and profit. Foreign donors provide food and
urgent health care for millions, preventing the Congolese state
from collapsing, but this involvement has not yielded
transformational change. Stearns gives a detailed historical
account of this period, focusing on the main players-Congolese and
Rwandan states and the main armed groups. He extrapolates from
these dynamics to other conflicts across Africa and presents a
theory of conflict that highlights the interests of the
belligerents and the social structures from which they arise.
Exploring how violence in the Congo has become preoccupied with its
own reproduction, The War That Doesn't Say Its Name sheds light on
why certain military feuds persist without resolution.
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