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Hermes, Emily (2018)

The Rise of Democracy in the Congo

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)

This thesis looks at the promotion of democracy within the Democratic Republic of Congo preformed by the UN mission MONUC. This thesis reasons that the strategy used within MONUC was not suitable for the country as it was highly concentrated on the national level, barely taking the important local issues and causes for the continuing of violence into account. Next this thesis suggests that the promotion of democracy had unwanted side effects that partly evolved from the MONUC mandate that highly prioritised elections over the implementation of institutions that could have guided the elections and regulated the local security issues that the country was facing.

Democracy

DRC

UN

Peacebuilding

Peacekeeping

Author

Hermes, Emily

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

International Relations

Supervisors

O'Malley, A.M. (Alanna)

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en