Understanding Obstacles to Peace Actors, Interests, and Strategies in Africa’s Great Lakes Region Editor Mwesiga Baregu fountain publishers Kampala International Development Research Centre Ottawa • Cairo • Dakar • Montevideo • Nairobi • New Delhi • Singapore www.hektips.com Fountain Publishers P.O. Box 488 Kampala E-mail:
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[email protected] Website: www.idrc.ca ISBN (e-book) 978-1-55250-516-8 © International Development Research Centre 2011 First published 2011 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-9970-25-036-3 www.hektips.com Contents Abbreviations .........................................................................................vi Foreword ..............................................................................................xiii Preface.................................................................................................xxii Notes on Contributors ........................................................................xxv 1 Actors, Interests and Strategies in the Great Lakes Confl ict Formation ...........................................................................................