Invisible Congolese Blockage to Peace: Deprivation of Basic Communal Needs Triggers Intractable Conflict in Congo

Abstract

 Protracted conflicts in Africa are often presented in a framework of fragile states, but this article takes a diachronic actor-oriented perspective to analyze the Congolese ethnic conflict. It reveals how ethnic conflict is rooted in Rwandans immigrant's unacknowledged which ties to land and political access exclusion, resulting in recurring conflict between native Congolese versus invisible Congolese”Rwandese immigrants. The focus is on the elite's strategies and actions vice versa the actions of the invisible Congolese to repel the elite's oppression; accompanied by negative perceptions towards each other. Deprivation of basic needs is the causal factor that fuels intractable conflict in Congo. The article concludes that needs-based conflict requires problem-solving resolution, nevertheless, the conflict would be static no matter the state's military dependency to 'The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”MONUSCO.