The Reconfiguration of Political Order in Africa: A Case Study of North Kivu (DR Congo) |
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administration AFDL African Studies areas armed army Author's interview authority Bahunde Banyamulenge Banyarwanda Barza Bukavu Butembo Callaghy CEBCE chapter chiefs chieftaincy churches civil society groups claims colonial coltan communities Congolese context crisis Democratic dominant DR Congo Eastern Congo economic elites emergence ethnic groups example extraversion factions Goma Grands Lacs Guerre Hutu insecurity intermediary International Crisis Group Kabila Kigali Kinshasa Kivu's civil society land leaders legitimacy Masisi military militias Mobutist Mobutu movement Mwami Nande NGOs non-state actors Nord-Kivu North Kivu officials organizations para-state patronage networks patterns peace-building percent Pole Institute political economy political order politique population postcolonial processes province RCD insurgency RCD's rebellion rebels refugees regime region relations result rule rulers rural Rutshuru Rwandan Hutu Rwandophone second Congo war Serufuli social South Kivu State-Society statehood strategies structure struggle territory tion traditional Tutsi United Nations violence violent conflicts warlords Zaire Zairian
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Page 279 - Confronting Leaders at the Apex of the State: The Growth of the Unofficial Economy in Congo," African Studies Review 41 (1998): 99-137; Janet Roitman, "The GarrisonEntrepot," Cahiers d'etudes africaines 150-52 (1998): 297-329.
Page 282 - A Reconfiguration of Political Order? The State of the State in North Kivu (DR Congo)', African Affairs, Vol.
Page 321 - The Massacre of Refugees in Congo: A Case of UN Peacekeeping Failure and International Law" Journal of Modern African Studies 38 (2): 163-202.
Page 310 - It is difficult to point to any individual or limited group of men as the ruler or rulers of the society. 2. Such authority roles as exist affect a rather limited sector of the lives of those subject to them. 3. The wielding of authority as a specialised, full-time occupation is virtually unknown.
Page 305 - Emergencies," in E. Wayne Nafziger, Frances Stewart, and Raimo Varynen, eds.. War, Hunger, and Displacement: The Origins of Humanitarian Emergencies, vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Page 36 - ... are class based (eg, much of the Marxist literature), or have skipped the important dynamics within domestic society altogether (eg, dependency and world system theories). As we shall see shortly, it is far from inevitable that state leaders will achieve predominance for the state. In cases where it is unattainable, at least for the time being, the state does not simply disappear nor does it always continually incur the high costs of battling those who are effectively making the rules in this...
Page 23 - Lonsdale suggested a distinction between 'state-building', as a conscious effort at creating an apparatus of control, and 'state formation, as an historical process whose outcome is a largely unconscious and contradictory process of conflicts, negotiations, and compromises between diverse groups'.
Page 256 - Librarians have already devised ingenious ways of exploiting duplicating machines, and there is every reason to believe that they will continue to do so.
Page 184 - A reconfiguration of political order? The state of the state in Northern Kivu (Congo).