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| Abbreviations | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Maps | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rwanda's mixed season of hope (July 1994-April 1995) | |
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| The immediate aftermath | |
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| The politics of national unity | |
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| Justice and the killings | |
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| Rwanda outside Rwanda: the world of the refugee camps | |
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| The international community's attitudes | |
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| From Kibeho to the attack on Zaire (April 1995-October 1996) | |
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| The Kibeho crisis | |
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| The collapse of the national unity government | |
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| The refugees and the Kivu cockpit | |
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| North Kivu: ethnicity and the land conflict | |
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| South Kivu: the Banyamulenge and the memories of 1965 | |
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| The impact of the Rwandese refugees on the Kivus | |
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| The Burundi factor | |
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| General Kagame goes to war | |
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| The Congo basin, its interlopers, and its onlookers | |
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| Into the Zairian vortex | |
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| The interlopers | |
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| Sudanese and Ugandans | |
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| Far from the Great Lakes: the Angolan conflict | |
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| Standing by, trying to keep out: three uneasy onlookers | |
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| Winning a virtual war (September 1996-May 1997) | |
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| Rwanda in Zaire: from refugee crisis to international war | |
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| Laurent-Desire Kabila and the birth of AFDL | |
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| The bogey of the multinational intervention force | |
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| The refugee exodus | |
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| The long walk into Kinshasa | |
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| War and diplomacy | |
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| The mining contracts: myths and realities | |
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| The fate of the refugees | |
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| Losing the real peace (May 1997-August 1998) | |
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| Kabila in power: a secretive and incoherent leadership | |
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| Diplomacy and the refugee issue | |
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| The economy: an ineffectual attempt at normalization | |
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| Between Luanda and Brazzaville: the DRC's volatile West African environment | |
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| The unquiet East: the Kivus and their neighbors | |
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| A continental war (August 1998-August 1999) | |
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| Commander Kabarebe's failed Blitzkrieg | |
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| Heading for an African war | |
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| Kinshasa's friends: godfathers and discreet supporters | |
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| Kinshasa's foes | |
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| Fence-sitters and well-wishers | |
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| Fighting down to a stalemate | |
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| Behind and around the war: domestic politics, diplomacy and economics | |
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| The Lusaka "peace" charade | |
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| Sinking into the quagmire (August 1999-January 2001) | |
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| The war is dead, long live the war | |
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| The East: confused rebels in confused fighting | |
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| Westwards: the river wars | |
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| Rwanda drives south into Katanga | |
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| The shaky home fronts | |
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| The Congo: an elusive search for national dialogue while the economy collapses | |
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| Angola: the pressure begins to ease off | |
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| Zimbabwe: trying to make the war pay for itself | |
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| Rwanda and Uganda: the friendship grows violent | |
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| The international dimension: giving aid, monitoring the looting, and waiting for MONUC | |
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| Mzee's assassination | |
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| Not with a bang but with a whimper: the war's confused ending (January 2001-December 2002) | |
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| Li'l Joseph's new political dispensation | |
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| Diplomacy slowly deconstructs the continental conflict | |
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| The actors start jockeying for position | |
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| Negoitations, national dialogue, and disarmament in competition | |
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| The South African breakthrough | |
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| The bumpy road toward a transitional government | |
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| The economy: slowly crawling out of the abyss | |
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| The eastern sore: the continental conflict shrinks into sub-regional anarchy | |
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| From war to peace: Congolese transition and conflict deconstruction (January 2003-July 2007) | |
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| The conflict's lingering aftermath (January 2003-December 2004) | |
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| The peripheral actors drop off | |
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| Rwanda and Uganda refuse to give up | |
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| An attempt at violently upsetting the transition | |
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| Tottering forward in Kinshasa | |
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| Slouching toward Bethlehem: the transition slowly turns into reality (January 2005-November 2006) | |
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| The pre-electoral struggles | |
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| DDRRR, SSR, and assorted security headaches | |
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| The elections | |
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| The morning after syndrome (November 2006-July 2007) | |
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| The risk of internal political paralysis | |
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| The economy: donors, debts, and the Great Mining Robbery | |
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| The east refuses to heal | |
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| Groping for meaning: the "Congolese" conflict and the crisis of contemporary Africa | |
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| The war as an African phenomenon | |
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| The purely East African origins of the conflagration | |
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| Antigenocide, the myth of the "new leaders," and the spread of democracy in Africa: the world projects its own rationale on the situation | |
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| The "New Congo," between African renaissance and African imperialism | |
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| From crusading to looting: the "new leaders" age quickly | |
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| The war as seen by the outside world | |
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| What did all the diplomatic agitation actually achieve? | |
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| Moral indignation in lieu of political resolve | |
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| An attempt at a philosophical conclusion | |
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| Seth Sendashonga's Murder | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |