ABOUT THE AUTHORS Reagan Miviri conducts research on violent conflictsin eastern DRC. Using quantitative and qualitative datacollected by the Kivu Security Barometer, he analyzes the dynamics of conflictsin the provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu.He also works on the influences and impacts ofthese conflicts in the African Great Lakes region. He has several publications to his credit, and hisanalyses are shared in several media outlets andnewspapers such as Le Monde, Al Jazeera, France 24, RFI,and TV5Monde. Reagan has over ten years of combined experiencein research, human rights protection, public policy analysis, and project management.He previously worked with Front Line Defenders inDublin and is a lawyer at the North Kivu Bar.He holds a Master’s degree in Freedom Law from the University of Grenoble Alpes. Fred Bauma is the Executive Director of Ebuteli. He is aprominent commentator and analyst on Congolese politics. Fred is also a Senior Fellow at the International Center for Cooperation.Fred Bauma is the executive director of Ebuteli. He is aprominent commentator and analyst on Congolese politics.Fred is also a senior fellow at the Center for InternationalCooperation(CIC) at New York University and a humanrights activist. Before joining Ebuteli in February 2022, Fred workedas research director for the Congo Study Group(GEC), a research program based at the CIC at New York University. Fred is alsoa member of the citizen movement Lutte pour le Change-ment(Lucha), the largest pro-democracy social movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC). He was arrested in March 2015 and spent 18 months in prison,where he faced the death penalty. Amnesty International declared Bauma a prisoner of conscience and awarded Lucha the Ambassador of Conscience Award in 2016. Fred is also a co-founding member of Afrikki, a network of more than 30 movements from Africa and its diaspora.Together with Jason Stearns, Fred co-hosts the Ukombozi podcast,a podcast about African social movements and the worlds they are trying to create. Fred Bauma holds a degree in business administration from the Free University of the Great Lakes(ULPGL) in Goma and a master’s degree in public administration from the City University of New York. The illusion of protection. Peace support missions in the DRC 25