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 during
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.
However, a dominant peacebuilding culture shaped the intervention
strategy in a way that precluded action on local conflicts,
ultimately dooming the international efforts to end the deadliest
conflict since World War II. Most international actors interpreted
continued fighting as the consequence of national and regional
tensions alone. UN staff and diplomats viewed intervention at 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 select individuals could convince international
actors to reevaluate their understanding of violence and
intervention.
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