CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE
“TRANSITION AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN EASTERN DRC”
December 8-10, 2016, Bukavu
Summary: This three-day conference will provide an overview of the current social science research on transitions and
local developments in eastern DRC; it will bridge the policy-academic divide; and bring together a host of research
institutions.
Location: UCB’s KALAMBO campus
Organizers: The conference is jointly organized by four institutions - New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), the
Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), the Wageningen University and Research (WUR, DEC and HAR group), and the
University of Antwerp (UA) – in collaboration with the following Congolese institutions: l’Université Catholique de
Bukavu (UCB) and its Expertise Centre on Mining Governance (CEGEMI), l'Institut Supérieur de Développement Rural
(ISDR), the International Center for Advanced Research and Training (ICART), Universite Evangelique en Afrique (UEA),
Panzi Hospital, and Panzi Foundation, l’Université Officiel de Bukavu (UOB), l’Université de Lubumbashi (UNILU),
Research Initiatives for Social Development (RISD), the International Institute of Tropical Agricultural (IITA), Action
pour la Paix et la Concorde (APC), and Justice pour Tous (JPT). Additional funding is provided by the Flemish InterUniversity Council (VLIR-UOS), the Norwegian Research Council, the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC),
and the Netherlands Scientific Council (NWO-WOTRO), .
PROGRAM
Day 1: December 8
8.15 – 8.45 Welcome and registration
8.45 – 09.00 Opening of the Conference
9.00 – 10.30 Parallel Academic Sessions
RURAL LIVELIHOODS 1
MINING 1
Chair: Klara Claessens
Chair: Sara Geenen
“Addressing Land Conflict and Developing Land
“Impact of Mining Reforms on Governance of Artisanal
Governance in Urban Eastern DRC: A Case Study of
Mining in DRC”
UCBC’s Sharing the Land Project in Goma and Beni”
Dorothea Hilhorst, Wageningen University
Lobo Ngumba Aime, Université Chrétienne Bilingue du
Congo
“Vulnerability and Resilience Assessment of Climatic Risks
“Analysing the Impact of Mining Reform on ‘Négociants’
on Agricultural Production in Small-holder Farmers of
in Northern Katanga (Eastern DRC)”
Walungu, South Kivu”
Claude Iguma, PhD Candidate/Special Chair
Romain Lwaboshi, ISDR-BUKAVU
Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction, Wageningen
University
“Environmental Governance and Food Security in South-
“Artisanal Mining and Agriculture: Analyzing the
Kivu Province: Rhetoric and Practices”
Linkages”
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Joachim Ruhamya
Francine IRAGI, Université Catholique de Bukavu
“Land Access Profiles in the Territory of Kalehe”
“Gradual Grabbing and Uncertainty in Congo’s Large-
Klara Claessens, IOB, University of Antwerp
scale Gold Mining Concessions”
Sara Geenen, IOB, University of Antwerp, CEGEMI_UCB
Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 Parallel Academic Session
RURAL LIVELIHOODS 2
MINING 2
Chair: Antoine Bishweka Cimenesa
Chair: Jeroen Cuvelier
“Action Collective et Relance de l'Agriculture à Petite
“A Miner’s Canary? The Negotiation of Political Power in
Echelle Dans le Kivu Montagneux Post-conflit à l'Est de la
Kivus’ Resource Gamble”
République Démocratique du Congo ”
Christoph Vogel, University of Zurich
Barhalengehwa Basimine Jules, UOB
“Crises politiques et conflits intercommunautaires : une
“Local Resource Curse in Eastern DRC: Looking Beyond
analyse autour de la terre comme ressource
Conflict”
sociopolitique et économique et de l’identité dans la
Marijke Verpoorten, University of Antwerp
chefferie Plaine de la Ruzizi“
Alphonse Shukuru Batachoka, UOB
“Transfert De L’Innovation Technologique Pour la
“Unintended Consequences of Economic Sanctions for
Production Des Briques Modernes et Son Incidence
Human Rights: Conflict Minerals and Infant Mortality in
Economique et Environnementale Au Sud-Kivu“
the Congo”
Dieu-Merci Amani Badosa, UOB
Jeremy D. Foltz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Le projet ASILI et l’Alimentation de la Population de la
“The EU legislation on conflict minerals”
Chefferie de Kabare au Sud-Kivu“
Jeroen Cuvelier
Antoine Bishweka Cimenesa, ISDR/BUKAVU
Lunch break
13.30 – 15.00 Parallel Academic Sessions
POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION AND RECONCILIATION
BUKAVU CITY LIFE
Chair: Patrycja Stys
Chair: Joseph Bahati Mukulu
“Livelihood Trajectories in the ‘post-conflict’ DRC and the
“Kila mutu alisha kuwa chief”: Economic Life of markets
Effects on State Legitimacy; The Case of South Kivu”
in East DRC: Case of Bukavu”
M. Mashanda, ISDR
Gloria Nguya, Wageningen University
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“La Reconstruction de la Cohésion Sociale en Période
“Les Moyens de Servie des Familles Pauvres au Quartier
Post-Conflit : Expérience de ZOA en Territoire d’UVIRA au
Panzi, Ville de Bukavu, Sud-Kivu“
Sud-Kivu, R.D. Congo“
Benjamin Kithongo Wonga, ISDR BUKAVU
Bosco Muchukiwwa, ISDR
“Post-genocide Memory as the Aegis of Atrocity”
“Negotiating Order in Bukavu: Encounters between
Christopher P. Davey, University of Bradford
Police and Community in a Congolese City”
Michel Thill, Université de Gand
“Post-Conflict Trajectories: Ex-Combatant Livelihoods and
“Time and Saving Deposit Arbitrage in Bukavu Financial
Social Networks in North Kivu”
Institutions”
Patrycja Stys, University of Edinburgh
Joseph Bahati Mukulu, UCB
Zoe Marks, University of Edinburgh
Coffee break
15.30-17.00: Keynote Pierre Englebert, with reactions from two distinguished DRC-researchers, and from audience
Day 2: December 9
8.30 – 8.45 Registration for those who were not present on the first day
8.45 - 9.00 Opening second day by TBA
9.00 – 10.30 Parallel Academic Sessions
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
CONFLICT
Chair: Gudrun Ostby
Chair: Tango Bawili Lukele
“Getting the Balance Right? Sexual Violence Response in
“The Urban Effects of Protracted Violent Conflict: War
the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Comparison
and Urbanization in Eastern Congo”
Between 2011 and 2014”
Karen Büscher, Conflict Research Group, Ghent
Nynke Douma
University
”Valeurs Socioculturelles, Intérêts Personnels et Violences
“La Problématique de la Réintégration Socioéconomique
Sur les Femmes au Sud-Kivu”
des ESFGA Dans le Contexte des Conflits Récurrents à
Venantie Bisimwa Nabintu, Femmes pour les Droits (asbl)
l’Est de la RDC, Cas de la Plaine de la Ruzizi“
et la Paix et UOB
Yves Balemba Zihalirwa
“Community Perceptions towards Survivors of Sexual
“Les Droits des Communautés Locales en Cas de la
Violence”
Délocalisation par une Entreprise Extractive de l’Or: Cas
Ingebjørg Finnbakk
de Luhwindja au Sud Kivu“
Raul Kitungano
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Sexual Violence, Social Exclusion, and the Impact of
“Conflits armés et problématique de développement à
Support Programs : Micro-levels Evidence form Eastern
l’Est de la République démocratique du Congo. Cas du
DRC”
territoire de Fizi“
Gudrun Ostby, PRIO
Tango Bawili Lukele, UOB
Christine Amisi, ICART
Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 Parallel Academic Sessions
GENDER & FAMILY LIFE
GOVERNANCE BY STATE & NON-STATE ACTORS
Chair: Marie rose Bashwira Nyenyezi
Chair: Peer Schouten
“Patterns of Women’s Decision Making in Markets and
“La Participation de la Population au Development de
Households: Lessons from Technology Adoption in South
Leurs Entites Territoriales Decentralisees Par le Budget
Kivu, DRC”
Participative: Cas de Trois Communes de la Ville de
Renee Bullock
Bukavu. “
Ayuba Aluhebe Job, ISDR
“From Pain to Power? Evaluating Short and Longer-Term
“Redevabilité Sociale et Actions de Développement
Impacts of a Women’s Empowement Program in Eastern
Local au Sud-Kivu: le Rôle des Acteurs non
Democratic Republic of Congo”
Gouvernementaux“
Rosalie Biaba, ICART
Philippe Kaganda Muleme Oderhwa, UOB
Ragnhild Nordas, PRIO
“Les Mutations Familiales et la Pauvreté dans le Quartier
“L’Exercice d’un Mandat Public par le Chef Coutumier:
Kasha, en Commune de Bagira“
Quel Impact au Développement Local du Bulega?“
Mulumeoderhwa Polepole Patient
Auguste Mwilo-Mwihi Watuta, UOB
“Facing Women Diversity: Livelihood Strategies in Eastern
“The Politics of Circulation: Roadblock Economies in
DRC’s Artisanal Mining Communities”
Eastern Congo“
Marie rose Bashwira Nyenyezi, Wagenigen University
Peer Schouten, Danish Institute for International Studies
and CEGEMI-UCB
Lunch break
13.30 – 15.00 Parallel Academic Sessions
INNOVATION & ENVIRONMENT
SERVICE DELIVERY
Chair: Marc Schut
Chair: Tom De Herdt
“Social Networks and Technology Diffusion in the Congo”
”La Gouvernance Scolaire Face aux Frais Additifs Dans
Paul Hofman, Wageningen University
les Ecoles Publiques de la Ville de Bukavu”
Bernardin Sebahire Ruhongeka, ISDR
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”Regard Praxéo-Configurationnel Sur les Conséquences
”And Then Whom Does the Population See and How? Of
Socioéconomiques et Environnementales de l’Explosion
Non-state Health Service Providers and statehood
Démographique sur le Développement Urbain de Bukavu”
Legitimacy in the DRC”
Jacques Fikiri Zirhumana, UOB
Wimana Aembe, Wageningen University
”Les Energies Fossiles (Pétrole et Gaz Naturel) : Enjeux
”Basic Service Delivery, State Legitimacy and the Micro-
Environnementaux, Défis et Perspectives de
politics of Recovery in South Kivu”
Développement Durable à l’Est de la RD Congo”
A.J.E. Ferf, Wageningen University
Josué Bagaya, CREGEM
E.E. Thieme Groen, Wageningen University
”Multi-stakeholder Innovation Processes for Agricultural
”From Political Mess to Technical Fix and Back Again:
Development: Experiences and Lessons Learned from
Post-conflict Reconstruction of Primary Education in the
Eastern DR Congo”
DRC”
CHAIR: Marc Schut, IITA/ WUR
Tom De Herdt
Wim Marivoet
Lluis Vinyals
Coffee break
15.30-17.00 : Roundtable on academic capacity building (Chair: Maarten Voors – WUR)
17.00-18.30: informal meet and greet between senior and junior researchers to discuss about publication
strategies
Day 3: December, 10
9.00 – 9.30 Welcome with coffee, and registration of policymakers & stakeholders
9.30– 11.00 Parallel Workshops 1, 2 & 3
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Workshop 1: Governing the mining sector for DRC’s development
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Workshop 2 : Female empowerment in DRC
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Workshop 3: Participatory development
Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 Roundtable: bridging gap between policy and research
13.00 Closing reception
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