DRC National Inclusive Dialogue: Fake News? Or Not?
Multiple peace initiatives have been undertaken to end the conflict in East-DRC, and each is underpinned by a specific analysis of the causes and nature of the crisis. One strand of analysis sees it as an externally induced military issue (essentially by Rwanda). Another as a combination of internal governance issues for the DRC government on the one hand, and the external expansionist policy of Rwanda. Yet another as a multilayered crisis with longer term root causes explaining its recurrence, and more immediate triggering events and policies, internal as well as external. Awareness of the complexity of the crisis beyond the purely military aspects has been growing, as well as of the necessity of a more comprehensive solution involving internal and external aspects of the crisis. However, for reasons explained below, it is still plausible that a short-term military logic will prevail which will, again, leave the multiple causes of the crisis untouched.
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