How to Conceive Resilience in a Protracted Crisis Situation like Eastern DRC? The Peacebuilding Contribution to Resilience in Conflict Settings

Dec 21, 2015 | Clémence Finaz
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Eastern DRC has a long history of pervasive violence and instability.  Aid agencies have been sinking hundreds of millions of dollars into this region for the past 25 years now, while the situation for millions of Congolese is merely improving. Decades of armed violence, human rights violation, extreme poverty and instability have displaced millions of people in South and North Kivu, creating a situation of protracted emergency, where traditional ways of programming aid intervention have turned out to be inadequate, not to say disappointing, and seem to do little to help people restore livelihoods or repair torn social relations over the long term. Humanitarians are searching for new ways to boost the resilience of people living in a protracted emergency situation. What does that mean when it comes to designing a project in such a fragile and insecure context which is also affected by climate and environmental risks?