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Figuration of Uncertainty: Armed Groups and ‘Humanitarian’ Military Intervention in Ituri (DR Congo)

Abstract This paper deals with the civil war and the international ‘humanitarian’ military intervention in Ituri (DR Congo). The relationship between non-state armed groups and the United Nations’ mission (MONUC) in Ituri was marked by the lack of a particular knowledge, a knowledge that is constructed through established patterns of interaction. Power balances were not defined leading to continual conflict. This paper interrogates the way actors dealt with the uncertainty this figuration provided and the final decision to take decisive action. It argues that uncertainty causes difficult problems for the actors involved in post-conflict intervention spaces, but that it may also be exploited as a tactical tool.