This paper explores issues of resources and security for perspectives on using them as tools of reconciliation and reconstruction to transform conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa. The author explores the unique security and conflict concerns in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He highlights the interconnected elements that have shaped the conflict in the region, including the interests of neighboring countries, competition over natural and economic resources, concerns over instability and lack of security, and ethnic rivalries.
By Dr. Joseph Yav Katshung, African Security Review, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2009
