Within, Above, and Beyond: Churches and Religious Civil Society Activism in South Kivu

Abstract

In South Kivu in Eastern DR Congo, various church actors have chosen to involve in advocacy and mobilisation through a formalised civil society structure known as La Société Civile (SC). In this chapter, we explore the relationship between the churches and civil society in Eastern DR Congo, paying particular attention to why this cooperation has taken such a formalised expression, the motivations of church actors to involve in SC and, finally, how this relationship between different civil society actors have played out differently at the local, provincial and national scale.