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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 1 / 2014  
         
  Article:   HUMAN DISPLACEMENT AND INSECURITY IN AFRICA: THE GENOCIDE IN RWANDA, THE GREAT LAKE CRISIS AND THE WARS IN D.R. CONGO.

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  Abstract:   The article focuses on refugee flows and insecurity within refugee camps which amount to huge humanitarian tragedies. Historically, the center of attention falls upon the Great Lakes crisis, hence the genocide in Rwanda and the wars in Zaire/Congo are briefly overviewed. Analitically, the article discusses elements of discursive approaches on security, starting from the Copenhagen School’s speech act framework. The pivotal argument presented here is that the media coverage and the discursive construction of threat, insecurity, and need for indiscriminate aid for refugee camps during the African Great Lakes Crisis distorted facts and misled international understanding of the crisis.

Key-words: human displacement, Great Lakes crisis, militarized refugee camps, insecurity, Copenhagen School, securitization
 
         
     
         
         
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