Promoting an inclusive peace, a call to strengthen Canada's peace-making capacity : Pour une paix qui tient compte des besoins de tous et de toutes, appel au renforcement de la capacité du Canada en matière de rétablissement de la paix : étude de cas : Le Canada serait-il en train de tourner le dos à la république démocratique de Congo?

The first agreement, the Nairobi Communiqué, signed between the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Government of Rwanda in November 2007, focused on demobilizing the Rwandan (predominantly Hutu) rebel group known as the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR). [...] Canada was also a member of the International Committee in Support of the Transition (CIAT) and co-Chair of the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes Region which supports the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR). [...] IS CANADA TURNING ITS BACK ON THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 7 Violence in the Kivu’s dates back to the conflicts of the 1990’s and the entry of Rwandan genocidaires into Congolese territory. [...] The commitment by the Congolese government to politically and militarily dismantle the FDLR was key to setting the stage for the Goma Peace Process as national rebel groups, the CNDP for example, cite the presence of the FDLR as justification for their own existence. [...] The Conference resulted in the Act of Engagement signed on January 23, 2008, by the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and 226 armed factions operating in the east.