M23 Resurgence in Eastern DRCDR Congo · 2022–ongoing"Hear Kivu carefully, for in those hills a peace agreement can lie sleeping until someone wakes it with a rifle."M23 did not return from nowhere; it came from the failed digestion of an earlier rebellion, from fighters who said their 2013 settlement had been betrayed and from communities still arguing over return, citizenship and protection.The lesson the elders kept: A broken integration deal is not paperwork, it is a future ambush. Where borders, minerals and identity all carry old wounds, peace must be enforced in daily life or it will be renegotiated by armed men.