R2P and Crimes Against Humanity in the DRC
Eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have for decades been plagued by chronic instability, violence, war, and extreme human suffering. Millions have died in the 25 years since the long Rwandan Civil War ignited a continental conflict. Conflict related sexual violence and use of child soldiers have been endemic, amid extensive Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes, and repeated accusations of Genocide. Despite the presence of the world’s largest peacekeeping mission, the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), violence continues to this day.
This panel will ask what geopolitical dynamics are driving conflict in the region, why peace is so elusive, and how the Responsibly to Protect can be enforced in this volatile world region.Panel: Richard Kapend, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Quantitative Research Methods at the University of Portsmouth
Filip Reyntjens, Professor Emeritus at University of Antwerp
Judi Rever, Freelance journalist and author of In Praise of Blood, The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Jason Stearns, Founder and Chair of the Advisory Board of Congo Research Group at New York University and Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University
Chair: Thomas Peak, Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge
Filip Reyntjens, Professor Emeritus at University of Antwerp
Judi Rever, Freelance journalist and author of In Praise of Blood, The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Jason Stearns, Founder and Chair of the Advisory Board of Congo Research Group at New York University and Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University
Chair: Thomas Peak, Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge
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Time: Apr 21, 2021 06:00 PM in London