Peace operations / Working Paper
The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo: imposing and consolidating peace beyond elections
07/07/2006 By Luis Peral
According to the last review of the electoral calendar made by the transition Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the first free general elections in the country since 1961 will be held next July 30, although results are not expected until mid-September and the eventual second round of the presidential elections would be held on October 15, together with provincial elections, and the results would be proclaimed on November 30.
International attention is fully focused on getting these elections to be held in peace. The UN had never been in charge of an election process so complicated from the political and logistical viewpoint, in a country with approximately 60 million inhabitants, a third of whom live under the line of poverty, and whose immense territory lacks communication networks and infrastructure.
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Bio author: Luis Peral
Luis Peral is PhD in Law, MA in Law of the European Union, MA in Law, BA in Political Sciences, with specialisation in International Relations (Universities Complutense and Carlos III of Madrid), and Diploma in English Law (University of Kent, Canterbury, UK). He has collaborated with FRIDE as Researcher and currently works as Director of the Conflict Prevention and Resolution programme at the Toledo International Centre for Peace. He also works at the Centre for Constitutional Studies of the Ministry of the Presidency under the Ramón y Cajal Research Programme of the Spanish Government, and is Senior Research Fellow at FRIDE.
