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The myth of international protection : war and survival in Congo / Claudia Seymour.

by Seymour, Claudia, 1976-

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University of California Press, 2019.

International relief -- Congo (Democratic Republic)

Child welfare -- International cooperation.

Children and violence -- Congo (Democratic Republic)

California series in public anthropology.

9780520299849 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

War and survival in Congo

xiii, 174 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A beginning -- Outrages in Congo -- Surviving violence -- Embodying violence -- Navigating violence -- Meanings of violence -- The myth of international protection.

"This book covers more than a decade of child protection work and ethnographic field research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It tells two stories: one of the entrenched violences survived by young people and their daily struggles to cope with deepening poverty and blocked aspirations; the other, a personal journey that begins with the will to do good and ends with the realization of how international aid contributes to greater harm. It offers a new perspective to reframe how the world sees the DRC, and urges global audiences to consider their own roles in fueling the DRC's otherwise endless violence."

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