ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in this book. The book discusses global structures of inequality and domination which are intervention's enabling conditions. It examines how humanitarian aid and peacekeeping in the Congo work. The Congo with its longstanding history of intervention warrants a closer look at its history and current politics alongside the study of contemporary peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention. The analysis of contemporary intervention practice mirrors often self-contained and self-referential approach intervention adopts. From a practice theory perspective, humanitarian aid and peacekeeping are simply the two sets of intervention practices that people encounter when studying the practice of humanitarian intervention in the Congo with special emphasis on North Kivu and Goma. Humanitarians and peacekeepers populate the streets and the lakeside of Goma and operate in its surroundings and share an important number of practical traits.
