Peace: Negative/Positive Peace Efforts in the DRC

In 1944, there was a mass genocide in the Dominican Republic of Congo, and they continued to
have a corrupt government and strong rebel groups which remained in control. In 2010, the UN created
Resolution 1925, which renamed MONUC MONUSCO, and they sent their military personnel to bring
positive peace. Beyond defending the country against the rebels, they were meant to bring harmony and
happiness to the people of DRC. When MONUSCO was not enough to sustain or stop the rebels, the UN
Security Council created Resolution 2098 in 2013, which from that came the Forward Intervention
Brigade (FIB), a military group specifically meant to perform offensive operations against the rebel
groups. They teamed up with the Congolese army and have been fighting rebel groups such as the ADF
since 2015.
The FIB is meant to bring negative peace to DRC. They are specifically meant to attack, but put a
pause on the violence the rebel groups are causing. MONUSCO is meant to bring positive peace. While
they are a military group, and have brought violence upon the rebel groups, they only fought back, and
their main purpose is to help the communities in DRC become whole again, using other non-violent
tactics. Both have been successful in the past, and both continue to bring positive and negative peace to
the DRC. While I find it surprising that the UN created a group with the sole purpose of attacking, I
believe that both groups are in fact bringing peace to the DRC and are fighting for the country to be a
safer place. The ADF is still active and continues to terrorize the DRC, but through the FIB, Congolese
army, and MONUSCO, hopefully they will soon be stopped and these groups will have brought peace to
the DRC for them to move forward and have positive peace.

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