Political Economy of the Great Lakes Region in Africa

AN ANSOMS Research Assistant, University of Antwerp, BelgiumTOM DE HERDT Lecturer in Political and Institutional Aspects of Poverty and Development, Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp, BelgiumLUC HUYSE Formerly Professor of Sociology and Sociology of Law, Leuven University Law School, BelgiumERIK KENNES Political Scientist, Royal Musuem for Central Africa, BelgiumRENE LEMARCHAND Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, USASTANISLAS BUCYALIMWE MARARO Professor-Reseacher, Centre of the Study of the Great Lakes Region in Africa, University of Antwerp, BelgiumCLAUDINE TSHIMANGA PhD Student, University of AntwerpSTEF VANDEGINSTE Legal Researcher, Institute of Development Policy and Management (IDPM), University of Antwerp, Belgium

• Introduction; S.Marysse PART 1: IN THE EYE OF THE STORM Rwanda, Ten Years On: From Genocide to Dictatorship; F.Reyntjens Disconnecting the Threads: Rwanda and the Holocaust Reconsidered; R.Lemarchand The Evolution and Characteristics of Poverty and Inequality in Rwanda; A.Ansoms & S.Marysse Consociational Democracy for Rwanda? S.Vandeginste & L.Huyse PART 2: FROM COLLAPSE AND WAR TO RECONSTRUCTION? Regress, War and Fragile Recovery: The Case of the DRCongo; S.Marysse The Mining Sector in Congo; The Victim or the Orphan of Globalization?; E.Kennes Kivu and Ituri in the Congo War; The Roots and Nature of a Linkage; S.B.Mararo War and the Political Economy of Kishasa; T.De Herdt & C.Tshimanga

'...the authors enhance our understanding of both the nature of politics and political economy in the Great Lakes, and of the responses of people, states and elites to external pressures for democratisation.' - Danielle Beswick, Modern African Studies