Dans un contexte marqué par une instabilité sécuritaire persistante et une dégradation continue des conditions de vie des populations, notre structure Projets de Société.Cd a conduit de septembre à novembre 2025 un vaste sondage citoyen sur la pertinence et l’urgence d’un dialogue national pour la paix en République Démocratique du Congo.
Réalisé auprès de plus de 10 000 Congolaises et Congolais de différentes villes et couches sociales, ce sondage avait pour objectif de recueillir la perception réelle des citoyens face aux crises que traverse le pays et d’évaluer leur attente quant à une solution collective et inclusive.
Les résultats sont sans équivoque : 74,7% des personnes interrogées estiment qu’il est nécessaire et urgent d’organiser un dialogue national inclusif. Pour elles, ce dialogue apparaît comme une voie indispensable pour répondre à l’insécurité, restaurer la cohésion nationale et améliorer les conditions sociales et économiques des populations. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oogIM5vukMrCy60NEmqW3Ered4BP9lKp/view?fbclid=IwY2xjawOvnMxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBUUGYyU25weU13MUtnckJzc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHl3ph5nxMDjaI1CCcd09CYA55pnfCJ3auKVzNrrBctyYHRlikO3Ar8JQGCIx_aem_kLkI_oeUCPa5XZ5833vhUA
Toward a Transitional Justice Approach to Long-Term Protection of Civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Violent conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been devastating for civilians, and the human rights violations suffered by victims have long-lasting effects. The need for both short and long-term responses is crucial. However, current literature and policy recommendations focus too narrowly on short-term results, neglecting the underlying causes that threaten everyday civilian protection. To broaden the paradigm of protecting civilians, it is necessary to balance prioritization and sequencing of interventions so that the civilian protection system is not spread too thin. Research conducted between May and October 2021, based on 20 interviews with humanitarian and transitional justice actors in Kinshasa and victim groups in Goma, examines how transitional justice can recast three dimensions of the protection of civilians under the humanitarian toolkit: (1) accountability for affected civilians, (2) decolonization, and (3) community-based approaches towards a long-term goal. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15423166241293852
Environmental Accountability of Extractive Industries and Community Resistance in the Wamuzimu Chieftaincy in Eastern Congo: Throughout the Congo wars, the pervasive activities of extractive industries have deepened economic inequalities and eviscerated the ecological rights of victimized communities while perpetuating a tragic legacy of gross human rights abuses in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo . Increasingly, however, affected communities are carrying out violent and nonviolent campaigns against mining companies and other extractive industries whose activities jeopardize community livelihoods. Using the analytical framework of collective participation and drawing on qualitative data from 20 semi-structured interviews with community activists in the chieftaincy of Wamuzimu in 2022, this paper argues that community resistance against extractive industries is a potential pathway for advancing bottom-up environmental accountability for the actions of extractive actors in eastern Congo. Thus, rather than narrowly studying community resistance as an anomaly, this article contends that peacebuilding and transitional justice scholars in the DR of Congo could draw nuanced and valuable insights by exploring its underlying motivations, limitations, and potential contributions to foregrounding the environmental accountability of extractive industries. This can be used to address recurring human rights violations at the individual and community levels caused by their activities in areas where the regulating state apparatus is nonexistent or has weakened legitimacy.
https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/social_encounters/vol7/iss1/4/
Youth on the Frontlines: Preventing Human Rights Abuses in Violent Contexts, A Case Study of LUCHA in the DR of Congo : Increasingly, transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms are implemented in contexts of ongoing violence where youth are often perceived as victims or perpetrators of human rights violations. This reductionist conceptualization of youth is problematic for understanding the diverse identities of youth in contexts where large-scale human rights violations occur. It also obscures the positive roles of youth as non-State actors in advancing human rights accountability and preventing the recurrence of specific human rights violations. This article explores how youth participation in LUCHA—a countrywide youth movement born from Goma (North Kivu) that advocates for greater political and civic involvement of Congolese—influences youth understandings of justice and contributes to the non-recurrence of specific human rights violations. Using collective participation as a conceptual lens and semi-structured interviews and focus groups conducted in 2015 and 2021 with LUCHA activists, the article contends that overemphasizing State actors eclipses non-State actors’ roles—including youth-led peace and justice initiatives in areas where State actors are inexistent or have weakened legitimacy. The article’s central claim is that ignoring the nexus between youth participation and justice understandings, particularly in contexts of ongoing violence, limits TJ’s full potential to unfold in these contexts. By zooming in on the TJ pillar of Guarantees of Non Recurrence (GoNR), the article is an invitation to further interrogate youth’s roles in TJ contexts and expand the field’s toolkit to accommodate their unique contributions.
https://academic.oup.com/ijtj/article-abstract/16/1/133/6577185