Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-making: Insights from 'Africa's World War'

Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making develops a historical sociology of peacebuilding processes through a theoretical and empirical study of everyday forms of resistance in peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It speaks to critical debates on resistance, statebuilding liberal peace, hybridity and on the sources of the DRC conflict. Examining the case of 'Africa's World War' in the DRC, it locates resistance in the experiences of war, peacebuilding and state-making by exploring discourses, violence and everyday forms of survival as quotidian acts that attempt to challenge or mitigate such experiences. The analysis of resistance offers a possibility to bring the historical and sociological aspects of both peacebuilding and the case of the DRC, providing new nuanced understanding on these processes and the particular case. The book also makes a significant contribution to the theorisation of resistance in International Relations.