Competition, patronage and fragmentation: The limits of bottom-up approaches to security governance in Ituri
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Competition, patronage and fragmentation : The limits of bottom-up approaches to security governance in Ituri. / Hoffmann, Kasper; Vlassenroot, Koen ; Büscher, Karen.
I: Stability, Bind 7, Nr. 1, 14, 2018, s. 1-17.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Competition, patronage and fragmentation
T2 - The limits of bottom-up approaches to security governance in Ituri
AU - Hoffmann, Kasper
AU - Vlassenroot, Koen
AU - Büscher, Karen
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - People are affected by different kinds of insecurity in the Ituri Province in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This article investigates donor-driven attempts to improve security governance there. More specifically, it investigates bottom-up approaches to security governance in Ituri’s capital of Bunia and in Irumu territory. Whereas in Bunia people are faced with high levels of violent crime, Irumu is the site of a violent conflict between the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Force (FRPI), an armed group connected to the Ngiti community, and the Congolese army. Involving local non-state security actors in security governance is perceived by international and national actors as a pragmatic way to improve security conditions. However, we show that these bottom-up security governance initiatives have not succeeded in resolving the issues that generate insecurity. We argue that this is because the drivers of insecurity in northeastern Congo are translocal and too complex for localised bottom-up approaches to significantly change the status quo.
AB - People are affected by different kinds of insecurity in the Ituri Province in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This article investigates donor-driven attempts to improve security governance there. More specifically, it investigates bottom-up approaches to security governance in Ituri’s capital of Bunia and in Irumu territory. Whereas in Bunia people are faced with high levels of violent crime, Irumu is the site of a violent conflict between the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Force (FRPI), an armed group connected to the Ngiti community, and the Congolese army. Involving local non-state security actors in security governance is perceived by international and national actors as a pragmatic way to improve security conditions. However, we show that these bottom-up security governance initiatives have not succeeded in resolving the issues that generate insecurity. We argue that this is because the drivers of insecurity in northeastern Congo are translocal and too complex for localised bottom-up approaches to significantly change the status quo.
U2 - 10.5334/sta.578
DO - 10.5334/sta.578
M3 - Journal article
VL - 7
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - Stability
JF - Stability
SN - 2165-2627
IS - 1
M1 - 14
ER -
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