Informationen zum Autor Jason Stearns is a CIC Senior Fellow and Director of the Congo Research Group. Jason has been working on conflict dynamics in Central Africa since 2001. He has worked for the International Crisis Group, the UN Group of Experts on the DR Congo, and the Rift Valley Institute. Klappentext At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply reported book, Jason Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it. He depicts village pastors who survived massacres, the child soldier assassin of President Kabila, a female Hutu activist who relives the hunting and methodical extermination of fellow refugees, and key architects of the war that became as great a disaster as--and was a direct consequence of--the genocide in neighboring Rwanda. Through their stories, he tries to understand why such mass violence made sense, and why stability has been so elusive. Through their voices, and an astonishing wealth of knowledge and research, Stearns chronicles the political, social, and moral decay of the Congolese State. Vorwort A Best Book of the Year- The Economist & the Wall Street Journal Zusammenfassung "Riveting and certain to become essential reading for anyone looking to understand Central Africa."--Wall Street Journal

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A Best Book of the Year- The Economist & the Wall Street Journal

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Jason K. Stearns is associate professor at Simon Fraser University, the founder of the Congo Research Group at New York University and the co-founder of Ebuteli, a research institute in Kinshasa. He has worked for the International Crisis Group, and the UN Group of Experts on the DR Congo, and the Rift Valley Institute. His most recent book is The War That Doesn’t Say Its Name. He currently lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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A "meticulously researched and comprehensive" (Financial Times​) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times.****

At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them.  Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's Great War.

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"Riveting and certain to become essential reading for anyone looking to understand Central Africa."--Wall Street Journal