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The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's unsuccessful transition from war to peace and democracy (2003-6). Grassroots rivalries over land, resources, and political power motivated widespread violence. However, a dominant peacebuilding culture shaped the intervention strategy in a way that precluded action on local conflicts, ultimately dooming the international efforts to end the deadliest conflict since World War II. Most international actors interpreted continued fighting as the consequence of national and regional tensions alone. UN staff and diplomats viewed intervention at the macro levels as their only legitimate responsibility. The dominant culture constructed local peacebuilding as such an unimportant, unfamiliar, and unmanageable task that neither shocking events nor resistance from select individuals could convince international actors to reevaluate their understanding of violence and intervention.

Peaceful settlement of international disputes --- Polemology --- anno 1990-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- Congo --- Peace-building --- Community development --- Conflict management --- Internal security --- Violence --- Ethnic conflict --- Consolidation de la paix --- Développement communautaire --- Gestion des conflits --- Sûreté de l'Etat --- Conflits ethniques --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Congo (République démocratique) --- History --- Histoire --- INTERNAL SECURITY -- 930.3 --- VIOLENCE -- 930.3 --- ETHNIC CONFLICT -- 930.3 --- CONGO -- 327.1 --- PEACEBUILDING -- 327.1 --- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT -- 327.1 --- CONFLICT MANAGEMENT -- 327.1 --- INTERNAL SECURITY -- 327.1 --- VIOLENCE -- 327.1 --- COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT -- 930.3 --- ETHNIC CONFLICT -- 327.1 --- #SBIB:327.6H00 --- #SBIB:328H412 --- Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: algemeen --- Instellingen en beleid: Zaïre / Congo --- Développement communautaire --- Sûreté de l'Etat --- Congo (République démocratique) --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Building peace --- Peacebuilding --- Peace --- Peacekeeping forces --- Security, Internal --- Insurgency --- Subversive activities --- Conflict, Ethnic --- Ethnic violence --- Inter-ethnic conflict --- Interethnic conflict --- Ethnic relations --- Social conflict --- Conflict control --- Conflict resolution --- Dispute settlement --- Management of conflict --- Managing conflict --- Management --- Negotiation --- Problem solving --- Crisis management --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Peace-building - Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Community development - Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Conflict management - Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Internal security - Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Violence - Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Ethnic conflict - Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Congo (Democratic Republic) - History - 1997 --- -Peace-building --- -Community development