Civil Wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1960-2010

摘要

In Civil Wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Emizet F. Kisangani develops a comparative historical perspective to analyse the Democratic Republic of Congo's long and complex history of civil wars. He contends that the dominant theories of civil wars - namely the greed, grievance and identity approaches -fall short of fully explaining the causes and duration of the 17 civil wars that the DRC has experienced between its independence in 1960 and the end of the Hema-Lendu conflict in 2005. His central argument is that these civil wars were caused by similar processes, during which political and military elites were deliberately excluded from positions of power and subsequently tried to reclaim these positions through war and violence.