G2TT
来源类型Commentary and Analysis
规范类型评论
Tangled! The new politics of the Congo
Africa Center
发表日期2019-04-10
出版年2019
语种英语
摘要On Wednesday, April 10, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center hosted a discussion on provincial decentralization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with Africa Center Senior Fellow Dr. Pierre Englebert and Congo researcher Ms. Lisa Jené. Africa Center Director of Programs and Studies and Deputy Director Ms. Bronwyn Bruton welcomed guests and highlighted the […]
正文
Tangled! The new politics of the Congo

(L-R) Ms. Bronwyn Bruton, Dr. Pierre Englebert, and Ms. Lisa Jené discuss the effects of decentralization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Matthieu Fernandez/Atlantic Council)

On Wednesday, April 10, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center hosted a discussion on provincial decentralization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with Africa Center Senior Fellow Dr. Pierre Englebert and Congo researcher Ms. Lisa Jené.

Africa Center Director of Programs and Studies and Deputy Director Ms. Bronwyn Bruton welcomed guests and highlighted the event’s timeliness given President Félix Tshisekedi’s recent visit to Washington, DC and the Atlantic Council.

In his remarks, Dr. Englebert presented his and Jené’s research on local Congolese politics and the implications of the 2015 découpage policy that split the DRC’s eleven provinces into twenty-six regions. He argued that instead of bolstering local power outside the nexus of corrupt elites in Kinshasa, découpage’s disingenuous implementation reinforced patronage networks, upset longstanding state-society relations, and institutionalized ethnic tensions and grievances in Congo’s provinces.

In the ensuing discussion moderated by Bruton, Englebert and Jené discussed the status of Congolese politics following a flawed election last December that saw Félix Tshisekedi attain the presidency. They noted that despite Tshisekedi’s victory, ex-President Joseph Kabila’s Common Front for Congo party maintains a strong hold on the National Assembly and recently won many of the new provincial governorships. They warned that as long as Kabila loyalists retained these institutional powers, the proposed coalition government between Tshisekedi and Kabila would be largely aspirational. Englebert predicted that Tshisekedi would be on a collision course with Kabila should he pursue an ambitious reform agenda.

Among those in attendance and participating in the discussion were Ambassador Herman Cohen, former assistant secretary of state for African affairs; Ambassador Lange Schermerhorn, former US ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti; and Dr. Vivian Lowery Derryck, former assistant administrator for Africa of the US Agency for International Development.

Please see Englebert and Jené’s research:

主题Africa ; Corruption ; Democratic Republic of the Congo ; Democratic Transitions ; Elections ; English ; Politics & Diplomacy ; South & Central Africa
URLhttps://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/event-recap/tangled-the-new-politics-of-the-congo/
来源智库Atlantic Council (United States)
资源类型智库出版物
条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/347435
推荐引用方式
GB/T 7714
Africa Center. Tangled! The new politics of the Congo. 2019.
条目包含的文件
条目无相关文件。
个性服务
推荐该条目
保存到收藏夹
导出为Endnote文件
谷歌学术
谷歌学术中相似的文章
[Africa Center]的文章
百度学术
百度学术中相似的文章
[Africa Center]的文章
必应学术
必应学术中相似的文章
[Africa Center]的文章
相关权益政策
暂无数据
收藏/分享

除非特别说明,本系统中所有内容都受版权保护,并保留所有权利。