ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses on the policy world, reductionist and pathologizing ways of enacting the Congo dominate. It focuses on intervention personnel is serious scrutiny and attempts understanding but condescension and racism persist nonetheless. A Congo ripe for intervention actors rely on information and knowledge production to devise their activities and requires knowledge for programming and project development, need a general discursive environment and public debate that is conducive to their cause. The chapter deals with pathologizing the Congo among intervention thus focuses on the assessments of Congolese society and the Congolese themselves circulating in the policy and media worlds and among intervention personnel. The terminology of 'postconflict environment' connects to the widespread and a historical conflict approach to the Congo, World Bank report mentions the Congo's political economy and the need for time. When the World Bank deals with the international aspects of the Congolese economy, it is strikingly selective.
