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By Michael Wallace Nest & Emizet F. Kisangani
Lynne Rienner Publishers
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Despite the prominent role that competition over natural resources has played in some of Africa's most intractable conflicts, little research has been devoted to what the economic dimensions of armed conflict mean for peace operations and efforts to reconstruct war-torn states. Redressing this gap, this volume analyzes the operational challenges that the war economy posed, and continues to pose, for policymakers and practitioners in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The authors first trace the historical role of natural resource exploitation in shaping economic development and governance in Zaire (now the DRC). Then turning to the 1998-2002 period, they assess how economic interests shaped both the peace process and the belligerents' attitudes toward resolution of the violent conflict that wracked the country. In subsequent chapters, they address the impact of the war economy on postwar reconstruction and identify strategies for more effective approaches to resolving - and even preventing - economically driven civil wars. |
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By Joseph R. Oppong
Chelsea House Publications
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Rich natural resources such as gold and diamonds, vast stretches of lush rain forest, and abundant timber make this huge country spectacularly beautiful. Unfortunately, due to these same resources, it is also one of the poorest nations in the world. In this information-packed book, students will be introduced to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country valiantly struggling to recover from historical abuse and ongoing war, a geographic paradise in the midst of political turmoil kept alive by the presence of the United Nations and 17,000 peacekeeping troops. |
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By Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration, Mailman School of Public Health & National Research Council
National Academies Press
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By Cassie Knight
Frances Lincoln
Hardcover (224 pages)
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Brazzaville Charms: A first-person account, based on original research and interviews, tells the story of militiamen who are led by a dreadlocked reincarnation of Christ, of exorcisms and sorcery, of pygmies who are owned by their masters, of timber companies exploiting the rain forest, and of the wars that have been caused by oil. |
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By Jay Heale
Marshall Cavendish Children's Books
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Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, languages, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of the third largest country in Africa, a former colony of Belgium. |
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By Terri Willis
Children's Press(CT)
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Describes the geography history culture industry and people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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By Francesca Davis Dipiazza
Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
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An overview of the Democratic Republic of Congo's geography and history, along with an exploration of the political, economic, and cultural landscape of this central African nation formerly known as Zaire. As part of the new, completely revised and redesigned second edition of the highly acclaimed Visual Geography Series®, Democratic Republic of Congo in Pictures explores the troubled and war-torn history of this former Belgian colony. |
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By Thomas Turner
Zed Books
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This book, by a lifelong authority on the Congo, makes sense of the world’s least reported and least understood major war. Since 1996 successive waves of armed conflict in the Congo have left behind at least 3 million casualties, overwhelmingly civilian. Turner throws new light on partisan and economically self-interested military interventions by Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia. And he cuts through the highly tendentious historical myths that have been used to make sense of the unfolding catastrophe both in the region and beyond. The book also indicates the changes required of the international community, neighboring African states and Congolese political leaders if this hugely resource-rich region of Central Africa is to build peace and economic security for its people. |
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Alphascript Publishing
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History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Early Congolese history, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kingdom of Kongo, Belgian Congo, Congo Crisis, Colonisation of the Congo, Congo Free State, Zaire, Shaba II, Shaba I, Second Congo War, First Congo War, 2000s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 2006, Movement for the Liberation of Congo, Republic of the Congo, Bantu expansion |
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