| | This essay does not attempt to analyse the failure of the state in the DRC from Mobutu to Kabila. Nor does it attempt to deal with Africa's first continental war from its beginnings in 1996. But more modestly, it situates itself within a post-war perspective, where scenarios for durable peace demand of the Intercongolese Dialogue (ICD) the realisation of 'a new political order in the DRC' , in the spirit of the Lusaka Agreements. The Congolese elites are obliged to call upon the authority of the intelligentia, wherever they are and whatever they do, to propose and debate the different aspects of such a new political order. Only then can an informed Congolese public compare different proposals and make an 'enlightened' choice. Seen from this perspective, the new political order is primarily a scientific challenge and only subsequently a political one. This essay shall therefore endeavour to sketch the structure of a future state from within the framework of a new political order. |
