Too Focused On Democracy?

Texas In Africa reviews Séverine Autesserre's book, The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding:

Autesserre is also interested in the question of why theinternational community failed to address local-level conflicts in theKivus and other areas when negotiating peace. Her conclusion is thatthe culture of international peace building doesn't allow forconsideration of local conflict. In other words, it never even occurredto most of the myriad of...