{"id":309801,"date":"2025-12-15T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=309801"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:08:12","slug":"rwanda-democratic-congo-peace-efforts-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/rwanda-democratic-congo-peace-efforts-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda-Democratic Congo: Peace Efforts Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"

12 Dec 2025 – <\/em>Despite discussions between the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, intense fighting has been reported in the eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo, especially the North and South Kivu provinces.\u00a0 Local residents report that the Rwandan-backed militia M23 has escalated its offensive in recent weeks targeting population centers near the frontier with Burundi.<\/p>\n

This eastern area of the Congo has been the scene of fighting at least since 1998 – in part as a result of the genocide in neighboring Rwanda in 1994.\u00a0 In mid-1994, more than one million Rwandan Hutu refugees poured into the two Kivus, fleeing the advance of the Tutsi-led Rwanda Patriotic Front, which now comprises the government of Rwanda.<\/p>\n

In addition to the structured militias such as M23, there are a host of small armed groups usually organized on clanic lines.\u00a0 These groups are difficult to contact and thus serious negotiations are nearly impossible.\u00a0 They are under the control of neither the government of Rwanda nor that of the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n

Today, there are serious violations of human rights with massive displacement of the population, plundering of villages, systematic rape of women, and the use of child soldiers.<\/p>\n

The Association of World Citizens has repeatedly called for negotiations in good faith for this area.\u00a0 There is a need to create an enabling political environment, to develop the rule of law, and to build a vital civil society.\u00a0 There are tasks which non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can undertake.\u00a0 There is an urgent need for peace efforts.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Ren\u00e9 Wadlow is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. He <\/em>is President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation and problem-solving in economic and social issues<\/em>, and <\/em>editor of <\/em>Transnational Perspectives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a need to create an enabling political environment, to develop the rule of law, and to build a vital civil society.\u00a0 There are tasks which non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can undertake.\u00a0 There is an urgent need for peace efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":244689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[237,2628,1991,1806,1412,124,92],"class_list":["post-309801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-africa","tag-conflict-mediation","tag-d-r-congo","tag-ngo","tag-rwanda","tag-united-nations","tag-violent-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309802,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309801\/revisions\/309802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}