Matlhakoane, Boitshoko Grace2022-11-212022-11-212021https://hdl.handle.net/10539/33535A research report submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree Master of Arts in International Relations, School of Social to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2021This paper examines South Africa’s foreign policy towards the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2013, focusing on the decision to use peace-enforcement as opposed to traditional peacekeeping. The study will examine the phenomenon of peace-enforcement as an underutilized peacekeeping operation. The goal is to evaluate the force intervention brigade as a primary conflict resolution mandate. The report seeks to understand South Africa’s involvement in the peace-enforcement operation and further assess possible lessons that can be derived from this operation and may be applied to other countries that are prone to conflicten