Patrick Vinck and Phuong Pham led the design and development of the survey in eastern Congo, Kinshasa, and Kisangani. Patrick Vinck, Phuong Pham, Suliman Baldo, and Rachel Shigekane wrote the report.* Eric Stover at the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, and Alpha Fall at the International Center for Transitional Justice contributed to the research. The report benefited from input by Mirna Adjami, Cecile Aptel, Richard Bailey, Laura Davis, Virginie Ladish, Graeme Simpson, and Marieke Wierda at the International Center for Transitional Justice. Camille Crittenden and Barbara Grob from the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, edited the report.
We wish to thank our field coordinators and surveyors for their dedication and work in difficult situations, and colleagues at the School of Public Health at the University of Kinshasa for their help coordinating the study. For confidentiality reasons, individual acknowledgements will not be listed here. However, this report would not have been possible without their support. We also wish to thank the survey respondents for taking the time to share their views with us. We thank Pamela Blotner for her original illustration used on the cover.
The research and report were supported by grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Humanity United, Swedish International Development Cooperation, the European Commission, and the BBC World Service Trust. The information provided and views expressed in this publication can in no way be taken to represent the official opinion of the funding agencies.