Paper short abstract

This paper starts from the argument that the conflict in eastern Congo has produced a number of important effects on the local social and economic organisation and illustrates the new forms of socio-economic regulation in different contexts in eastern DRC.

Paper long abstract

This paper starts from the argument that the conflict in eastern Congo has produced a number of important effects on the local social and economic organisation. While the enduring insecurity and political-economic instability have seriously disrupted economic survival mechanisms and have eroded the social fabric, the struggles between armed militias, local elites and ordinary people at the same time have produced a number of important shifts in the way local societies are transformed an regulated. This paper illustrates these new forms of socio-economic regulation in three different contexts in South Kivu: the mining-city of Kamituga, the rebel-controlled region of Bunyakiri and the Moyen Plateau around Uvira.