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From Resource War to ‘Violent Peace’
Transition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

by Björn Aust and Willem Jaspers

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Table of Contents

1. The Congolese peace process
   1.1 Power shifts and developments leading to the peace agreement
   1.2 Political transition: Structural challenges and spoiler problems
   1.3 ‘Violent peace’ and security-related liabilities to transition
   1.4 Fragility of security sector reform
2. A Tale of two cities: Goma and Bukavu as case studies of the transition in North and South Kivu
   2.1 A background to conflict dimensions, the war and political power
   2.2 Goma: Rising from its ashes
   2.3 Continued vacuum or emerging stability?