From the time it deployed in the eastern DRC in 2013 up to the first quarter of 2016, arguably no much tangible progress has been made by the United Nations Force Intervention Brigade (UN FIB).The security situation in eastern Congo continues to be unstable.This instability has serious direct security threats and spillover effects on respective neighbouring countries that are either part of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) or the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).There are certain constraints that the FIB has continued to encounter in the context of regional and international political and strategic dynamics surrounding eastern Congo recurring conflict. This paper argues that one of the contributing factors behind the challenges encountered by the UN Force is the fact that both the ICGLR and the SADC efforts at enhancing peace enforcement in the eastern DRC have been overshadowed by the self-interests of international actors. Arguably, this scenario has impacted negatively on the ICGLR/SADC synchronised efforts towards the effectiveness of the FIB.The paper makes some recommendations on how best to attain sustainable synergy between the ICGLR and SADC in order to enhance the strategic and operational efficiency and the effectiveness of the UN FIB in the eastern Congo conflict.

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联合国部队干预大队：在南部非洲民主共和国经常发生冲突的同时，南部非洲发展共同体/伊拉克政府间自然资源中心同步采取和平支助努力吗？

本文认为，联合国部队所面临挑战背后的促成因素之一是，国际行为者的自身利益使ICGLR和SADC在加强刚果民主共和国东部和平执法方面的努力都被掩盖了。可以说，这种情况对ICGLR / SADC为FIB的有效性所做的同步努力产生了负面影响。本文就如何最好地实现ICGLR与SADC之间的可持续协同增效提出了一些建议，以提高战略和运营效率以及有效性刚果东部冲突中的联合国国际金融调查机构。