David against Goliath in Cote d'Ivoire? Laurent Gbagbo's war against global governance

Piccolino, Giulia

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“…It started as perception amongst the political actors on who won or lost. Both parties were convicted that they won the election and through verbal exchanges incited fear and anger by touching on sensitive issues in the country then went forward to use armed forces available to take charge of the streets in Abidjan (Banegas, 2011;Bassett, 2011;Piccolino, 2011;Straus, 2011). The conflict added to the list of many violent election conflict in West Africa (Annan, 2014).…”

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“…The post-election conflict in 2010 was purely political. The misunderstanding and unwillingness to accept ballot rule and the Pretoria agreement in 2005 by the political parties with the UN after the declaration of the run-off results by the Independent Electoral Commission of Côte d'Ivoire was the root cause of the violence (Piccolino, 2011;Garavoglia, 2013). Political civil wars are common in the West Africa.…”

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Identity Politics, Citizenship and the 2010 Post-Election Conflict in Côte d’Ivoire

Daniel¹,

Enweremadu²

2020

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In 2010, Côte d'Ivoire witnessed a very devastating and unprecedented postelection conflict. The conflict resulted in both internal and external impact that over the years continue to affect the pace of development in the nation. This study aimed to investigate the causes and main drivers of the post-electoral crisis in Côte d'Ivoire in 2010. The study used expository research design adopting in-depth interviews to collect primary data and contextual approach to extract data from briefings from the crisis; UN, EU and international election observation reports and published information in press materials and peer-reviewed journals. The interviews were conducted through cluster sampling method with Election observers, ECOWAS Representation in Côte d'Ivoire, Staff of Abidjan Political Research Center "Centre de Recherche Politique d'Abidjan (CRPA)", National and International Civil Society, Political Experts, Conflict Experts, Political Scientists and Lecturers in the field. Structural descriptive and expository methods were used to analyse and present findings based on the Marxist and Liberal Structural theories of conflict. The study found out that the 2010 electoral conflict was caused by political flaws due to unclear policies and weak electoral institutions that allowed political interruption and manipulation. Furthermore, national identity was the main driver used by political actors to instrumentalize the conflict to make it seem like a civil war. Illiteracy, tribalism and religion were sensitive areas used to break social cohesion under the big umbrella of national identity. The concept of citizenship should be re-conceptualized and made clear in the constitution to prevent re-occurrence of post-election conflict in the coming years like 2020.Origin and culture has been a cause of conflict since the beginning of the world. Leaders incite people for a course by attacking their sense of belonging through origin as was done by Gbagbo and Ouattara during the 2010 election.

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Identity Politics, Citizenship and the 2010 Post-Election Conflict in Côte d’Ivoire

Daniel¹,

Enweremadu²

2020

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“…Given the stalemate, the country experienced another wave of violence. On 28 March 2011, so-called pro-Ouattara forces, composed of the former rebel forces and parts of the regular army, launched an attack in Abidjan with international help that ended in Gbagbo's arrest only two weeks later (Fofana 2011;Piccolino 2012). During that time, neighborhoods of Abidjan experienced politically motivated violence mixed with acts of personal revenge.…”

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A Phone without Names

Heitz-Tokpa

2018

Conflict and Society

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The anthropology of war has provided intimate analyses of how communities deal with hardship in violent conflicts. These clearly affect such communities’ social fabric, but exactly how is little understood. This article uses the lens of trust and distrust to analyze the effects of violent conflict on social relations. Through an ethnographic case study of a nurse during the 2002–2011 violent conflict in Côte d’Ivoire, I show how his trust in social norms, political opponents, and strangers in general became transformed into distrust. He stopped saving names in his phone to protect himself and people in his phone. The case highlights how experiences of duress can create distrust and how distrust can prolong conditions of duress by hindering the rebuilding of social trust.

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“…However, the refusal of Gbagbo to acknowledge his defeat, as well as the ensuing conflict between the IEC and the Constitutional Council, loyal to the outgoing president, plunged the country into a renewed crisis, which resulted into the death of about 3000 people. 48 In the end, thus, while the compilation of a voter list accepted by all the conflict participants was a necessary prerequisite for holding elections, it was per se unable to guarantee the acceptance of election results.…”

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Infrastructural state capacity for democratization? Voter registration and identification in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana compared

Piccolino

2015

Democratization

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snfrstruturl stte pity for demortiztionc oter registrtion nd identifition in g¢ ote d9svoire nd qhn ompred his item ws sumitted to voughorough niversity9s snstitutionl epository y theGn uthorF Citation: sggyvsxyD qFD PHITF snfrstruturl stte pity for demoE rtiztionc oter registrtion nd identifition in g¢ ote d9svoire nd qhn ompredF hemortiztionD PQ@QAD ppF RWVESIWF Additional Information:• his is n eepted wnusript of n rtile pulished y ylor 8 prnis in hemortiztion on PQrd pe PHISD ville onlineX httpXGGdxFdoiForgGIHFIHVHGIQSIHQRUFPHIRFWVQWHT GermanyA large portion of electoral irregularities in developing countries stem from administrative deficiencies, rather than deliberate fraud. This is particularly evident when it comes to voter registration and identification: the quality of a voter list depends from the existence of effective mechanisms to register and identify citizens and electors, which might not be easily at hand in many developing countries. Democratization in these countries has been accompanied by intense polemics about the quality of the voter rolls and the identification of electors, which have threatened democratic consolidation. Biometrics technology has been recently heralded as a possible solution, but its effective potential is disputable. In order to understand how problems with registering and identifying voters have affected democratization, this paper reviews the contrasting experiences of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. In Côte d'Ivoire, the problem of the reliability of the voter register has been entangled since the '90s with the politicization of the citizenship question. As a consequence, compiling an acceptable voter register has proven extremely difficult and cumbersome. In Ghana, an effective electoral administration has been key to overcome the mistrust of the political parties about the fairness of the voter process.

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David against Goliath in Cote d'Ivoire? Laurent Gbagbo's war against global governance

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