Representation of ethnic groups in subnational political institutions: The case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

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dc.contributor.advisorFessha, Yonatan Tesfaye
dc.contributor.authorSamuel, Matemane Iraguha
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-15T09:45:28Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-06T12:45:43Z
dc.date.available2018-08-15T09:45:28Z
dc.date.available2024-11-06T12:45:43Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionMagister Legum - LLM (Public Law and Jurisprudence)
dc.description.abstractWith approximately 450 tribes and 250 ethnic groups in a territory of 2 345 095 km2,1the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the world's largest, populous, and multiethnolinguistic countries. Since the departure of the Belgian coloniser in 1960, this Member State of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) is facing a myriad of institutional crises, bloody conflicts and wars, mainly caused by the design of political institutions and the side-lining of some ethnic groups from political institutions. For many decades, Congolese provinces have seen numerous violent ethnic-driven conflicts, which led to institutional instability, political crisis, secessions, massacres and wars. The bloodiest of them all were the first and second Congolese wars. From 1996 to 2002, these so-called "African first world war" cost the DRC the lives of millions of people, divided it into many small "republics" and destroyed the few political and economic infrastructures that survived four decades of institutional instability and dictatorship.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/18113
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Cape
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Cape
dc.subjectAppointment
dc.subjectCo-option
dc.subjectDecentralisation
dc.subjectDRC
dc.subjectElection
dc.subjectEthnic groups
dc.subjectNorth Kivu
dc.subjectPower-sharing
dc.subjectProvincial Assembly
dc.subjectProvincial Executive
dc.titleRepresentation of ethnic groups in subnational political institutions: The case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

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