The War That Doesnt Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo Stearns Jason K.
An in-depth look at the Congolese conflict post-2003 and why the violence hasn't ended despite international interventionWell into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of…
Specifikacia The War That Doesnt Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo Stearns Jason K.
An in-depth look at the Congolese conflict post-2003 and why the violence hasn't ended despite international interventionWell into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "forever war"--a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity. Millions have died in one of the worst humanitarian calamities of our time. The War That Doesn't Say Its Name investigates the most recent phase of this conflict, asking why the peace deal of 2003--accompanied by the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world and tens of billions in international aid--has failed to stop the violence. Jason Stearns argues that the fighting has become an end in itself, carried forward in substantial part through the apathy and complicity of local and international actors.Stearns shows that