ABSTRACT The conflict that has embroiled the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for decades has been one of the most vexing problems in the political history of Africa and the larger international community. The grave clashes predominantly in the eastern parts of the country have occasioned various challenges for the state and the world at large, chief among them a record of the internally displaced persons in the state. The forces that have led to internal displacement vary but this paper takes the view that it is a result of the identity crisis, a colonial sarcoma triggered by the arbitrary drawing of borders in the African continent, and in the context of the DRC, forcing 250 different ethnic groups to be embedded in a new state. The paper divulges that the identity crisis is one of the key attributing factors to the unending skirmishes in the DRC, which has led to the escalation of the forcibly displaced people. Without giving attention to such a convoluted historical problem through the establishment of a system based on equality at the national level, the DRC will continuously be infused with unending conflicts which will further precipitate numbers of the forcibly displaced in the country.

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在塑造未来的同时重新审视过去：刚果民主共和国的身份危机、国内流离失所和前进之路

摘要 数十年来卷入刚果民主共和国 (DRC) 的冲突一直是非洲和更大的国际社会政治史上最棘手的问题之一。主要发生在该国东部地区的严重冲突给该州和整个世界带来了各种挑战，其中最主要的是该州境内流离失所者的记录。导致国内流离失所的力量各不相同，但本文认为这是身份危机的结果，一种由非洲大陆任意划定边界引发的殖民肉瘤，在刚果民主共和国的背景下，迫使 250不同的族群被嵌入到一个新的国家中。该文件透露，身份危机是刚果民主共和国无休止的小规模冲突的关键因素之一，导致被迫流离失所者升级。如果不通过在国家层面建立基于平等的制度来关注这样一个错综复杂的历史问题，刚果民主共和国将不断陷入无休止的冲突，这将进一步加剧该国被迫流离失所的人数。