Mbaya, Rebecca2019-06-052019-06-052018Mbaya, Rebecca Mwenga (2018) Border dispute: understanding territorial disputes in Africa : case of the DRC, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, https://hdl.handle.net/10539/27389https://hdl.handle.net/10539/27389A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Field of International Relations February, 2018This research paper focuses on the territorial disputes which have occurred between the DRC and 7 out of its 9 neighbors. Being a security situation, understanding territorial dispute can assist in explaining the extremely long period of political instability and violent armed conflicts that have created havoc in most of the DRC’s post-independence era. The aim here is to uncover the causes underscoring the variations in territorial disputes outcomes as not all of them resulted in violent conflicts. I use an analytical framework based on core tenets of the Third world security Dilemma to test how it answers my research questionOnline resource (66 leaves)enTerritory, NationalBoundaries--HistoryThesis