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Program(s): Congo Research Group, Peace and Security

The Landscape of Armed Groups in Eastern Congo

Nineteen years after the beginning of the Congo wars, armed conflict still affects millions in the east of the country. This essay by CRG director Jason Stearns and our senior fellow Christoph Vogel accompanies a map of armed groups, compiled by researchers across North and South Kivu, in which we catalogue over seventy groups. This is far from a static picture, and we highlight key shifts that have emerged over the past two years: a decline of regional involvement, a fragmentation of armed groups, and a modest drop in the political manipulation of armed groups.

Publication Date: Nov 25, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Jason Stearns, Christoph Vogel

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Topic(s): Crises, Humanitarian Crises

Program(s): Congo Research Group

RDC: «Aujourd’hui, on recense plus de 70 groupes armés dans les deux Kivu»

CIC Senior Fellow, Jason Stearns, qui appartient à ce groupe d’étude sur le Congo, répond aux questions de Nathalie Amar.

Publication Date: Nov 25, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Jason Stearns

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

The new wave of global terrorism

The recent series of dastardly and heinous attacks in places as dispersed as Baghdad, Beirut, Bamako, Kabul and Paris by myriad terrorist outfits ranging from the Taliban to Islamic State and al-Qaeda hold several important lessons for international efforts to counter terrorism.

Publication Date: Nov 23, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): WPS Sidhu

Region/Country: Europe, Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

Topic(s): Crises, International Security, Transnational Threats

Congo Ruling Coalition Wants Vote Delay for Census

The ruling coalition of the Democratic Republic of Congo said a series of elections set to take place over the next year should be delayed by at least six months to allow the country to hold a national census.

Publication Date: Nov 13, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Tom Wilson , Jason Stearns

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Topic(s): Rule of Law

Africa, the indispensable continent for India

The third India Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) in New Delhi this week, with over 40 African heads of governments and states attending, will be the biggest foreign policy event hosted by India in more than three decades. While this process was partly in response to initiatives by other emerging powers, particularly the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation launched in 2000, it was also a belated recognition that Africa was becoming an indispensable continent for India’s future—one that New Delhi can ignore at its own detriment.

Publication Date: Oct 26, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): WPS Sidhu

Region/Country: South Asia, India, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa

Topic(s): India, South Asia

Testing Indonesia’s commitment to UN peacekeeping

Indonesia is committed to becoming one of the top ten countries contributing to UN peace operations. With its Roadmap Vision 4,000 Peacekeepers, Jakarta aims to dramatically increase the 2,724 peacekeepers now deployed in ten UN missions by 2019.

Compared to 2014, this would be a doubling of troops deployed in only five years. This is a noble and ambitious goal of international good citizenship, but what will be the challenges on this journey?

Publication Date: Jul 07, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Jim Della-Giacoma

Region/Country: East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Peace and Security

Topic(s): United Nations

CAR Scandal Reflects U.N. Peacekeeping’s Loss of Strategic Direction

Do peacekeepers do more harm than good? An appalling abuse scandal has come to overshadow the two parallel peace operations, led by France and the United Nations, currently based in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Read the full World Politics Review article CAR Scandal Reflects U.N. Peacekeeping’s Loss of Strategic Direction

Publication Date: Jun 08, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Peace and Security

Topic(s): United Nations

Alex Fielding: Africa’s forgotten butchers, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda

Boko Haram attacks in northern Nigeria have dominated African headlines since the Islamist militants kidnapped over 200 girls in Chibok in April 2014. But there is a lesser known group of rebels, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), who have been intimidating the local population, albeit on a different scale, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for over 20 years.

Publication Date: Mar 16, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Alex Fielding

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Peace and Security

Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises

Burundi chaos shows anger against long-time Africa rulers, but Big Men are as dead set to fight back – and stay

The riots and the failed Burundi coup that followed President Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term highlight a rising trend in Africa of protests against leaders who try to prolong their terms.

Read the full Mail and Guardian Africa article Burundi chaos shows anger against long-time Africa rulers, but Big Men are as dead set to fight back – and stay

Publication Date: May 15, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Jason Stearns

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Peace and Security

Bilan de la mise en oeuvre de l’accord-cadre d’Addis-Abeba

Deux ans après la signature de l’accord-cadre d’Addis-Abeba pour la paix et la sécurité en RDC, le coordonnateur national du mécanisme de suivi de cet accord, affirme que la RDC a réalisé la majeure partie de ses engagements.

Lit l'article entier et ecoutez au dialogue par Radio Okapi Bilan de la mise en oeuvre de l’accord-cadre d’Addis-Abeba

Publication Date: Mar 10, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Jason Stearns

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Peace and Security