Providing humanitarian assistance behind rebel lines : UNICEF's Eastern Zaïre operation 1996 - 1998
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2004
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Palgrave MacMillan, New York, NY, CA
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The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate how a multilateral agency responds in an extreme political situation where it must work with a state-within-a-state, and to illustrate legal, ethical, and practical issues that may arise in such situations. Implications for theory and policy are derived. In the case of Eastern Zaire (now part of Congo DR) a rebel alliance became the de jure government, and this fell apart to such an extent that a rebel state-within-a-state was re-established in the heartland of the previous rebellion even before armed conflict broke out again.
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HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE, UNICEF, ETHNIC CONFLICTS, HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, CONGO DR, VIOLENCE, REFUGEE CAMPS, NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, ZAIRE, SOUTH OF SAHARA, RWANDA, REBEL GROUPS