MNCs, Conflict and the Contradictions of Resource Extraction in the DRC

The activities of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in developing countries have been heavily criticised for exploiting Africa’s natural resources and the unethical treatment of citizens of the resource communities. This chapter adopts a desktop research methodology to demonstrate how the corporate activities of MNCs in the DRC’s Kivu region, have sustained more violence rather than generate sustainable solutions to the resource conflict in the area. Founded on an Afrocentric approach, the chapter argues for a harmonised response, where national government, MNCs, and other non-state decision-makers such as local community leaders, commit to regional peace, protecting the rights of artisanal miners and alleviating corruption.