Les personnes civiles traumatisées (ESPT) de la guerre du Congo rapportent de nombreuses intrusions de pensées par des images et des scènes des évènements vécus. Ces intrusions apportent une souffrance clinique importante. Elles font revivre le traumatisme en permanence sans aucun contrôle cognitif ne soit apparemment possible. Dans notre travail de thèse nous soutenons l’idée que ces intrusions sont la conséquence d’une modification profonde des processus cognitif de contrôle chez les personnes civiles traumatisées de la guerre du Congo. Plus particulièrement, nous supposons que le processus susceptible d’être en cause dans l’absence de contrôle sur les images et les pensées serait un déficit du mécanisme d’inhibition cognitive. Afin de mettre nos hypothèse à l’épreuve nous avons construit différentes tâches composées pour chacune d’un matériel à valence « neutre » et d’un matériel à valence « traumatique, négative ». Ces tâches sont reconnues pour mesurer les capacités de contrôle cognitif. Il s’agit de la tâche de Stroop (Stroop, 1935), de la tâche d’Oubli dirigé (Bjork, Bjork, & Anderson, 1998), d’un matériel issus du paradigme DRM (Deese, 1959 ; Roediger, & McDermott, 1995) et R/K (Tulving, 1985) et enfin d’une épreuve de glissement de mémoire (Jacoby, 1991 ; Haye, & Jacoby, 1996, 1999 ; Guerdoux, 2009). Ces tâches ont été administrées à une première population de personnes civiles traumatisées de la guerre du Congo en comparaison à une population de personnes du Burkina-Faso non traumatisées. Nos résultats ont invalidé nos hypothèses quant à l’existence d’un déficit d’inhibition notamment en présence d’un matériel verbal émotionnel en lien avec les évènements traumatiques vécus. Les résultats de nos études militent pour un hypercontrôle et une hyperinhibition de tout matériel en lien avec le traumatisme. C’est pourquoi, nous tentons d’expliquer cet hypercontrôle comme le signe d’un refoulement émotionnel tel que défini par Freud (1926) ou bien encore le signe d’une dissociation psychique définie par Janet (1986, 1987). / The traumatized civil persons (PTSD) of the Congo War bring back numerous interventions of thoughts by images and scenes of the lived events. These interventions bring an important clinical suffering. They make relive the trauma permanently without any cognitive control is apparently possible. In our work of thesis we support the idea that these interventions are the consequences of a deep modification of the processes cognitive of control at the civil persons traumatized by the Congo War. More particularly, we suppose that the process susceptible to be involved (to be in question) in the absence of control over the images and the thoughts would be a deficit of the mechanism of cognitive inhibition. To put our hypothesis in the test we built various tasks consisted for each of a material with "neutral" valency and a material with "traumatic, negative" valency. These tasks are recognized to measure the capacities of cognitive control. It is about the task of Stroop (Stroop, 1935), of the task of directed Forgetting (Bjork, Bjork, & Anderson, 1996), of a material stemming of paradigm DRM (Deese, 1959; Roediger, & McDermott, 1995) and R/K (Tulving, 1985) and finally a memory–slip test (Jacoby, 1991; Hay, & Jacoby, 1996, 1999; Guerdoux, 2009). These tasks were administered to a first population of civil persons traumatized by the Congo War in comparison to a population of persons of the Burkina Faso not traumatized. Our results invalidated our hypotheses as for the existence of a deficit of inhibition in particular in the presence of an emotional verbal material in connection with the lived traumatic events. The results of our studies militate for a hypercontrol and a hyperinhibition of any material in connection with the trauma. That is why we try to explain this hypercontrol as the sign of an emotional expulsion such as defined by Freud (1926) or the sign of a psychic dissociation defined by Janet (1986, 1987).

In my diploma thesis I try for an objective evaluation and analysis of the history of the Democratic republic of the Congo since the year 1960, when the country gained its independence from Belgium, until the first years of the 21st century. The whole time period of 50 years of the existence of the country is divided into several intervals according to important events, which influenced the country's political development. Consequently one chapter of the thesis is devoted to each time period. In the conclusion of my thesis I try to evaluate the contemporary situation in the Democratic republic of the Congo and suggest solutions for the future.

This study addresses the need for a parsimonious theoretical model to explain state-corporate crime. The Integrated Theoretical Model of State-Corporate Crime will be compared to the Integrated Theory of International Criminal Law Violation to determine which model provides the most accurate theoretical depiction of state- corporate crime, while retaining parsimony. For this comparison, the models will be applied to Democratic Republic of Congo case study. Using a secondary analysis of qualitative data and preexisting literature, it was found that the Integrated Theoretical Model of State-Corporate Crime displays a representative depiction of all state-corporate crime actors and their catalysts for action in a more parsimonious manner than the Integrated Theory of International Criminal Law Violation.