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Liberal Peace: On Conflict, Gender, and Peacebuilding: Democratic Republic of Congo Case Study

In this book, the authors analyse and offer some insights into the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The story is told within the context of its conflicts, with an exploration of the complex and multilayered conflict causes and the attempts to resolve the conflict based on liberal peacebuilding. The book delves into an examination of gender relations in the country with insight into the gendered dimensions of conflict in the DRC and how liberal peace failed to resolve the conflict because of hidden agendas and interests by the West and other emerging powers as a typical replica of what has been ongoing in many conflict-laden countries / societies. The book is divided into two major parts.
The first part, as noted above, delves into and dwells on the historicity and ontology of the conflict. The second part focuses on the various attempts at peacemaking that have taken place in the country, with emphasis on how liberal peace has failed to resolve the conflict.
The book analyses various peacemaking strategies that have been employed and the role of women (or lack thereof) in peacemaking and peacebuilding processes; and finally, the failures, strengths, and weaknesses of international intervention strategies.

Authors:
Nkwazi. N. Mhango
University of Manitoba
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5788-2823
Evelyn Birabwa M. Namakula
Carleton University
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4120-3149
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36615/9781776489527

Chapters

  • 1. Democratic Republic of Congo’s Conflict and Gendered Nature
  • 2. Interventionism and the Responsibility to Protect
  • 3. Ontological Underpinnings of the Conflict
  • 4. Addressing Gender Issues Locally and Internationally
  • 5. Rape, Women’s Bodies versus Resources
  • 6. Gender Exclusion and Exploitation as Capitalist and Colonial Hangovers
  • 7. No Permanent Allies but Permanent Interests
  • 8. The Institutionalisation of GBV
  • 9. Socially Entrenched Culture of Violence: Authors’ Testimonies and Congolese Women’s Peacebuilding Initiatives
  • 10. National and Global Politico-Economic Factors
  • 11. International Conspiracy against the DRC Africa’s Typical Replica
  • 12. Rape as the Weapon of Capitalism
  • 13. The Internalisation of Rape
  • 14. Prostitution
  • 15. When Liberal Peace Fails
  • 16. Forces Behind the Conflict
  • 17. Human Rights Vs Security
  • 18. Whose Human Rights?

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Mhango , N. N., & Namakula, E. B. M. (2024). Liberal Peace: On Conflict, Gender, and Peacebuilding: Democratic Republic of Congo Case Study (Vols. 2). UJ Press. https://doi.org/10.36615/9781776489527