Background information on Eastern Congo
Eastern Congo or Democratic Republic of Congo is the third largest and has over 75 million people who reside there. In 1998 till now, Eastern Congo had many conflicts and severe poverty which claimed the lives of over 5 million women, men and children. Additional issues such as women being victims of sexual violence and children forced to fight as military soldiers.
Weak states are not intrinsically weak, or weak because of geography or colonialism; they are weak because they supply lesser or less-than-adequate quantities of political goods, or poorer-quality political goods, or both.
A failed state is a country with a government that cannot or will not deliver essential political goods (public
Eastern Congo or Democratic Republic of Congo is the third largest and has over 75 million people who reside there. In 1998 till now, Eastern Congo had many conflicts and severe poverty which claimed the lives of over 5 million women, men and children. Additional issues such as women being victims of sexual violence and children forced to fight as military soldiers.
Weak states are not intrinsically weak, or weak because of geography or colonialism; they are weak because they supply lesser or less-than-adequate quantities of political goods, or poorer-quality political goods, or both.
A failed state is a country with a government that cannot or will not deliver essential political goods (public