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Stearns, Jason et al. (2013b): Banyamulenge: Insurgency and Exclusion in the Mountains of South Kivu. Usalama Project Report. Rift Valley Institute, London/Nairobi.

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Stearns, Jason (2013): PARECO. Land, local strongmen, and the roots of militia politics in North Kivu. Usalama Project Report. Rift Valley Institute, London/Nairobi.

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More generally:

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Lemarchand, René (2009): The dynamics of violence in Central Africa. PUP, Philadelphia.

Lemarchand, René (1996): Burundi. Ethnic Conflict and Genocide. CUP, Cambridge.

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Prunier, Gérard (1995): The Rwanda Crisis. History of a Genocide. Fountain, Kampala.

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Vlassenroot, Koen/Raeymaekers, Tim (ed. 2004): Conflict and Social Transformation in Eastern DR Congo. Academia Press, Gent.

Watt, Nigel (2008): Burundi. The Biography of a Small African Country. Hurst, London.