scholarly journals The Local Turn and the Framing of unoci’s Mandated Activities by the UN

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 226-248
Author(s):  
Alexander Gilder
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Peace Operations ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
Peace Operation ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Local Engagement

Abstract This article engages specifically with the local turn in UN peace operations by looking at local engagement and empowerment in the UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire. After the closure of a long-serving UN peace operation it is important to take stock of the activities pursued under the mandate and reflect on how the mission has contributed to peacekeeping practice. UN peace operations have increasingly undertaken peacebuilding activities at the local level with current literature emphasising the need to involve local actors in decision-making and reconciliation activities. In seeking to uncover how the UN understands the need to involve local actors, the mission activities of unoci are broken down into a number of themes looking at how the local are engaged, given agency and empowered, and also where the UN recognises specific vulnerabilities of persons. The article shows how the UN portrays its activities and where it has either expressly or impliedly sought to demonstrate a concern for the local in Côte d’Ivoire.

scholarly journals Mitigating election violence locally: UN peacekeepers’ election-education campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Smidt
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Violent Behaviour ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Election Violence

False information, rumours and hate speech can incite violent protest and rioting during electoral periods. To counter such disinformation, United Nations peacekeeping operations (PKOs) routinely organize election-education events. While researchers tend to study how PKOs affect armed group and state behaviour, this study shifts the focus to civilians. It argues that PKOs’ election education reduces violent protest and rioting involving civilians during electoral periods via three pathways. First, learning about PKOs’ electoral security assistance during election-education events may convince people that political opponents cannot violently disturb elections, thereby mitigating fears of election violence. Second, election-education events provide politically relevant information that can strengthen political efficacy and people’s ability to make use of peaceful political channels. Finally, peace messages during election-education events can change people’s calculus about the utility and appropriateness of violent behaviour. Together, these activities mitigate fears, reduce political alienation and counter civilians’ willingness to get involved in violence. To test these expectations, I combine survey data on people’ perceptions and attitudes, events data on violent protest and rioting, and a novel dataset on local-level election-education events carried out by the PKO in Côte d’Ivoire before four elections held between 2010 and 2016. The results show that when the PKO is perceived to be an impartial arbiter, its election-education events have violence-mitigating effects at the individual and subnational levels.

Côte d’Ivoire

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles T. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
The Political ◽  
Peace Operations ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
International Response ◽  
Côte D'ivoire

This chapter examines the international response to Côte d’Ivoire’s post-election crisis in 2010/11. In particular, it analyses the elements that relate to the responsibility to protect (R2P), including how R2P informed the political and practical responses to the crisis. It identifies the major contentions/issues that the case highlights about the nature and future of R2P. It argues that despite the relative inattention paid to this case in the academic literature to date, the experience of Côte d’Ivoire offers important insights into the opportunities and challenges associated with all three pillars of R2P and recalls debates around the responsibility to rebuild as well as the emergent relationship between the R2P framework and protection of civilians in United Nations peace operations.

‘The power of a simple gift’: The ethics of children’s evangelization by Christian NGOs in Côte d’Ivoire

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-272
Author(s):  
Marie Nathalie LeBlanc ◽  
Boris Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Transnational Organizations ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Holistic Conception ◽  
Local Discourses

This article examines how some Evangelical nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Côte d’Ivoire have focused their actions towards children and in doing so use strategies based on gifts and play. These organizations’ activities encourage a holistic conception of ‘development’ that is based on both spiritual and material dimensions. In fact, these NGOs provide fascinating examples of the interaction between divergent development ideals, which are based on seemingly competing notions of the ‘good life’. These organizations promote an ethics of evangelization, which rests on the underlying ideas that ‘good Christians will make good citizens’, by emphasizing activities geared to the tutoring of children through educational, charitable, sanitary, and playful interventions. In order to illustrate how the leaders of these local Evangelical NGOs carefully manipulate the border between play and evangelization, and how amusement and gift-giving are key to the interconnection of humanitarian and proselytizing activities, we focus the analysis on the activities of a local affiliate of the transnational NGO Samaritan’s Purse. This case study also highlights how ethical ideals of evangelization defined by transnational organizations are appropriated by local actors and integrated within local discourses regarding the moralization of Ivorian society. The article is based on ethnographic field research conducted in the city of Abidjan in 2011, 2012, and 2016.

scholarly journals Moving data off the shelf and into action: an intervention to improve data-informed decision making in Côte d'Ivoire

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 25035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Nutley ◽  
Léontine Gnassou ◽  
Moussa Traore ◽  
Abitche Edwige Bosso ◽  
Stephanie Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Informed Decision ◽  
Informed Decision Making ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
Data Informed

scholarly journals Analyse spatiale et épidémiologie pour l'aide à la décision dans la lutte contre le Covid-19 en Côte d’Ivoire

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (24) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Cataud Marius Guede ◽  
Bouadi Arnaud Ferrand Koffi ◽  
Gué Pierre Guele
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Epidemiological Surveillance ◽  
Prise De Décision ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Infected People ◽  
Côte D'ivoire

Face à la forte mobilisation de toutes les couches de la société, la prise en compte de la dimension spatiale dans l’étude épidémiologique de la Covid19, une maladie due à un coronavirus dénommé SARS-COV 2, pour une prise de décision efficace, n’est pas assez mise en avant. Elle constitue tout l’intérêt de notre étude dont l’objectif est d’abord d’évaluer la situation sanitaire et épidémique actuelle en Côte d’Ivoire avant de comprendre la dynamique spatiale de transmission du virus pouvant expliquer la propagation et/ou la persistance de la maladie, ensuite de déterminer les besoins et les actions à mettre en œuvre pour aider à la prise de décision dans le cadre de la surveillance épidémiologique de la Covid-19. Cet article en utilisant les Outils tels les Système d’Information Géographique (SIG), rend compte de l’importance de l’espace dans la structuration des phénomènes de contagionsdiffusion des maladies telles que la covid-19. La recherche documentaire, l’observation directe et l’exécution d’entretien avec les spécialistes de santé publique ont été les principales techniques de collecte de l’information. Les données concernant cette maladie montrent que la situation est en phase de plateau évoluant en dent de scie avec un taux de positivité de 7,76% au 20 février 2021. L’épicentre de la maladie en Côte d’Ivoire est la zone du grand Abidjan avec un nombre plus élevé de personnes infectées dans le district de Cocody-Bingerville. La combinaison de l’analyse spatiale et de l’épidémiologie permettra aux décideurs de relever le défi de la lutte contre la Covid-19. In view of the strong mobilisation of all sectors of society, the spatial dimension of the epidemiological study of Covid-19, a disease caused by a coronavirus called SARS-COV 2, has not been sufficiently taken into account for effective decision-making. This is the interest of our study, the objective of which is first to assess the current health and epidemic situation in Côte d'Ivoire, then to understand the spatial dynamics of transmission of the virus, which may explain the spread and/or persistence of the disease, and then to determine the needs and actions to be implemented to assist decision-making in the context of epidemiological surveillance of Covid-19. This article, using tools such as Geographic Information Sysrtem (GIS), shows the importance of space in structuring the contagion-diffusion phenomena of diseases such as Covid-19. Documentary research, direct observation and interviews with public health specialists were the main techniques used to collect information. The data on this disease show that the situation is in a plateau phase evolving in a sawtooth fashion with a positivity rate of 7.76% as of 20 February 2021. The epicentre of the disease in Côte d'Ivoire is the greater Abidjan area with a higher number of infected people in the Cocody-Bingerville district. The combination of spatial analysis and epidemiology will enable decision-makers to meet the challenge of controlling Covid-19.

scholarly journals Participation in the Management of a Peri-Urban Protected Forest in Northern Côte d'Ivoire: Case of the Mount Korhogo Classified Forest

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
N'guessan Simon Andon ◽  
Kouadio Augustin Alla ◽  
Kouacou Jean-Marie Atta
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
Management Consultation

The evolution of tropical forest deforestation in Côte d'Ivoire is very alarming. From 16 million hectares in 1900, the area increased to 9 million hectares in 1965 to less than 2.5 million hectares in 2016. Even forests protected by the State of Côte d'Ivoire are not spared while peri-urban protected forests are the most exposed. The finding reveals many shortcomings in the state monopoly of protected area management. Yet, elsewhere in Africa, many experiences of participatory management have shown significant advances in protection and their introduction in Côte d'Ivoire from 1990. To understand the effectiveness of this new consultation framework adopted as a management tool, national policies and locally adopted strategies on the Mount Korhogo classified forest in northern Côte d'Ivoire have been analyzed. Results show a failure of participation at the national level since 1996 and a lack of participation at the local level. Despite the establishment of a local committee for forest defense and fight against bush fires, the lack of consultation undermines the proper functioning of this organization, thus leading to the exacerbation of deforestation. Mount Korhogo Classified Forest.Keywords: participatory management, consultation framework, protected forest, urbanization, deforestation

Local Politics and International Partnerships: The UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI)

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 252-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex J. Bellamy ◽  
Paul D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Peace Operations ◽  
Attribution Of Responsibility ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
International Partnerships ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions

This article examines the UN mission in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) by applying the framework set out by Paul Diehl and Dan Druckman. It does so in two main parts. The first describes the course and direction of UNOCI until the end of 2011. The second applies elements of the Diehl-Druckman framework to evaluate UNOCI. It argues that two particular issues stand out from the UNOCI case, and are reflected in the title of this essay. First, that in considering the evaluation of peacekeeping missions, the mandate itself needs to be front and centre and more thought needs to be given to the attribution of responsibility when the mandate calls for peacekeepers to ‘assist’ others. Second, peace processes involve multiple foreign actors and UN peace operations are only one part of the puzzle. Overlapping mandates and complex partnerships are becoming a more common feature of UN peace operations. Accounting for these in the evaluation of missions is one of the key challenges for the future.

scholarly journals Mediating ethnic conflict at the grassroots: the role of local associational life in shaping political values in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

2004 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Morris MacLean
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Voluntary Associations ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Côte D'ivoire

This article attempts to understand why ethnic-regional civil war has challenged the national unity of Côte d'Ivoire and not Ghana, two neighbouring countries with nearly identical ethnic, religious and regional divisions, by examining politics at the grassroots. Based on a carefully controlled comparison of two similar regions of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, the study investigates how participation in local voluntary associations reinforces the local experience of the state to shape the ongoing development of political values and affect the prospects for ethnic peace and democracy. The article finds that participation in ethnically heterogeneous voluntary associations does not necessarily promote democratic values and practice. In fact, in Côte d'Ivoire, participation in ethnically heterogeneous cocoa producer and mutual assistance organisations reinforces vertical patronage networks based on narrower ethnic identities. In contrast, in Ghana, participation in more ethnically homogeneous local church groups encourages the development of democratic values and practices at the local level that mediate the potential for ethnic conflict and support the consolidation of a democratic regime.

scholarly journals Power-Sharing in the Local Arena: Man - a Rebel-Held Town in Western Côte d'Ivoire

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Heitz
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
State Administration

In general, peace agreements with power-sharing provisions are analysed at a national level. This article offers insights into the practices of power-sharing in the local arena of western Côte d'Ivoire, in the town of Man. It investigates what brought about a change towards peace in the region of Man and then presents local forms of power-sharing between the community leaders and the rebels who have established a rather complex system of domination and taxation in the territory they occupy. Moreover, the implementation of a territorial power-sharing device, which is part of the peace agreement negotiated among the warring parties at the national level, is analysed: the redeployment of state administration to the rebel-held zones of the country. The ethnographic data on which the article is based reveals that the actors at the local level have their own strategies to address urgent needs and that they play a more active role in peacemaking than is usually acknowledged.

scholarly journals Ex-Rebel Authority after Civil War: Theory and Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-232
Author(s):  
Philip A. Martin ◽  
Giulia Piccolino ◽  
Jeremy S. Speight
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Côte D'ivoire

How do former armed militants exercise local political power after civil wars end? Building on recent advances in the study of "rebel rulers" and local goods provision by armed groups, this article offers a typology of ex-rebel commander authority that emphasizes two dimensions of former militants' power: local-level ties to civilian populations ruled during civil war and national-level ties to post-conflict state elites. Put together, these dimensions produce four trajectories of ex-rebel authority. These trajectories shape whether and how ex-rebel commanders provide social goods within post-conflict communities and the durability of ex-rebels' local authority over time. We illustrate this typology with qualitative evidence from northern Côte d'Ivoire. The framework yields theoretical insights about local orders after civil war, as well as implications for peacebuilding policies.

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