The great lakes region. The geopolitical challenge of the 21st century
- Autores: Ignacio José García Sánchez
- Localización: Geopolitical Overview of Conflicts 2012, 2012, ISBN 978-84-9781-794-3, págs. 247-269
- Idioma: español
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ABSTRACT:
The Great Lakes Region embodies the essence of the African continent and its struggle to emerge from a vicious cycle of poverty and externally driven conflict. The current geopolitical environment � dominated by a global crisis of financial capitalism that affects all regions but is particularly severe in the developed world � coupled to a huge wealth of natural resources put the region in a favourable position to build a new, unique, individual scenario up from its own roots, providing the basis for on-going, sustainable development and hope.
The formidable threats and challenges the region faces are rooted in inhuman slavery, acquisitive colonialism and the trauma of independence revolutions encumbered by Marxist ideology. A region where ethnic, racial and tribal resentment live on to this day, driven by charismatic leaders who hold sway over a very young population using poverty and exclusion to their advantage. The strength of its natural resources, however, and the huge human potential of youth in today�s multilateral, plural framework offer this region a unique opportunity in its relatively short history to play its own distinctive role in the international scene.
