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Abbreviations | |
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Glossary | |
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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 | |