Any analysis aimed at coming up with strategies to positively transform a conflict has first to identify all the actors involved and interests pursued, either individually or collectively. This rule applies best to protracted conflicts like the one under scrutiny. In this research study, Ladislas Bizimana tries to answer the most fundamental question: Who has been doing what, why, how in the bloody conflict that continues to plunge the peoples of the African Great Lakes region into mourning? In doing so, Ladislas draws upon both his personal experience and professional background. As a Rwandan who lived through and survived the 1994 Rwandan horror, Ladislas speaks from within. This matchless, insightful and compelling testimony is enriched by his being a former TV and Radio reporter working for humanitarian agencies in the African Great Lakes region (1994-1995). In brief, it is a succinct yet all-telling analysis of one of the most protracted human conflicts of our times.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements and dedication
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- List of tables
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1.Aim and Context
- 2.Structure and methodological approach
- Chapter I Basic concepts
- I.1.Conflict and/or crisis
- I.2.Conflict Management
- I.3.Conflict Resolution
- I.4.Conflict Transformation
- I.5.Conflict Prevention
- Chapter II Regional actors and their interests
- II.1.Individual states
- II.1.1.Mobutu’s Zaire (1965-1997)
- II.1.2.Kabila’s Democratic Republic of Congo-RDC-(1997-?)
- II.1.3.Uganda
- II.1.4.Tanzania
- II.2.Regional institutions and organisations
- II.2.1.The organisation of African Unity (OAU) and sub-regional organisations
- Chapter III International actors and their interests
- III.1.Individual states
- III.1.1.Belgium
- III.1.2.France
- III.1.3.United States
- III.2.International institutions and organisations
- III.2.1.The United Nations and the Aid Community
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- 1 References
- 2 Detailed chronologies
- 2.1.Rwandan history chronology
- 2.2.Burundian history chronology
- 2.3.Ex-Zaire/DRC history chronology
- 3 Maps
- 3.1.Military interventions in Africa and by Africans as of October 1998
- 3.2.Former Zaire/Now Democratic Republic of Congo and the GreatLakes Region
- 3.3.Refugee camp populations in the African Great Lakes Region as of May 1996
- 3.4.Map of the coveted wealth stores in the African Great Lakes Region and in southern Africa
- 4 Human Rights and Political Documents
- 4.1.Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rightson the Establishment of an African Court on Human andPeoples’ Rig
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