Footnotes - Christian Mission in a Context of Violence: Experiences in the Democratic Republic of Congo:
1James H. Cone, “In Search of a Definition of Violence” in Church and Society 85, no.3 (January-February 1995), pp. 5,6. At the time, Cone was professor of systematic theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York.
2International Rescue Committee, http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/111038817665.htm,
posted 10 March 2005.
3John O’Shea, chief executive of the Irish relief agency GOAL, speaking to AlertNet on 05 March 2005. Reuters, http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/MSFIntl/110985441587.htm.
4Rowan Gillies, president, Médecins Sans Frontières International, speaking to AlertNet after his recent trip to Congo. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/MSFIntl/110985441587.htm,
posted 05 March 2005.
5http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/111038616766.htm posted 09 March 2005.
6For up-to-date information on the ongoing war, see for instance www.allafrica.com and www.news.bbc.co.uk. Click on Democratic Republic of Congo at both web sites.
7Cited by AlertNet, http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/111038616766.htm, 09 March 05.
8Human Rights Watch, The War Within the War: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Eastern Congo (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2002), p. 11.
11AlertNet, http://www.alertnet.org/top10crises.htm.
12Human Rights Watch, The War Within the War, p. 92.
14Ibid., p. 94. The UN mission’s reputation has also been damaged by sexual abuse of women and girls by peacekeeping troops stationed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This recent information dated 02 March 2005. Cf. www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4311013.stm.
16Human Rights Watch, The War Within the War.
17Human Rights Watch, Ituri: Covered in Blood–Ethnically Targeted Violence in Northeastern D.R. Congo ,vol.15, no. 11 (A), July 2003. Can be downloaded at http://hrw.org/reports/2003/ituri0703/
18Human Rights Watch, The War Within the War, pp. 34,35.
23Human Rights Watch, Ituri: Covered in Blood, p. 21.
25The presence of Tutsi and Banyamurenge in eastern Congo, as well as the conflict that exists between Hema and Lendu, has been commented on as an attempt to take off a part of Congo.
26See, for instance, the video narrated by Richard Kiley, Arms for the Poor, 1998.
27Paul Kivel and Allan Creighton, Making the Peace, (Alameda, Calif.: Hunter House, 1997), p. 131.
28Library of Congress Country Studies, 1993.
africanhistory.about.com The truth is also demonstrated in T. Jack Thompson, "Light on the Dark Continent: The Photography of Alice Seely Harris and the Congo Atrocities of the Early Twentieth Century,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 26, no. #4 (October 2002): pp. 146-49.
