The onset of war as a novel experience: dislocation and familiarisation in Côte d'Ivoire, late 2002

Heitz-Tokpa, Kathrin

doi:10.1111/1469-8676.12332

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“…On first inspection of a simple scatterplot (Figure 5), the link between rebel goods provision and commanders’ postwar influence appears clear: localities tend to have a higher number of postwar ties to ex-rebel commanders where FN rebels provided more services during the occupation. Moreover, many cases that appear near the line of best fit meet the basic plausibility test: Man and Korhogo, for example, two areas where the wartime governance of the Forces Nouvelles has been documented extensively (Heitz-Tokpa, 2013; Speight, 2016), both appear in the upper-right quadrant.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…10 As a result, many officers came to govern areas where they happened to be located when the FN system of territorial administration was rolled out in early 2003. 11 While in theory each commander answered to the FN headquarters in Bouaké, day-to-day operations were delegated with limited central oversight (Heitz-Tokpa, 2013; Speight, 2016). Individual zone and sector commanders thus enjoyed significant latitude to recruit, tax, and govern within their fiefdoms in highly varied ways.…”

Section: Côte D’ivoire: the Persistence Of Ex-rebel Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“… 9 Past studies have documented Forces Nouvelles governance practices within specific towns, but none have gathered data systematically across localities. See for example Heitz-Tokpa (2013) and Speight (2016). …”

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Commander–community ties after civil war

Martin

2020

Journal of Peace Research

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Ex-rebel military commanders play a central role in peacebuilding after civil war. Yet the influence and mobilization power of these actors is not uniform: in some areas commanders retain strong ties to civilian populations after war’s end, while in other areas such ties wither away. This article analyses a novel dataset of former rebel-occupied localities in Côte d’Ivoire to investigate why commander–community linkages endure or decline after post-conflict transitions. The findings support a theory of political accountability: commanders retained political capital and access to networks of supporters in areas where insurgents provided essential goods to civilians during war. By contrast, where insurgents’ wartime rule involved abuse and coercion, commanders were less likely to sustain strong ties. These findings challenge the conventional wisdom that violent warlordism explains the persistence of rebel commanders’ power in peacetime. Rather, effective wartime governance may create regionally embedded strongmen who can in turn disrupt postwar state-building.

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Commander–community ties after civil war

Martin

2020

Journal of Peace Research

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“…The trend in anthropology to study violence and social conflict has certainly not diminished over the last two decades, rather to the contrary (e.g. Heitz‐Tokpa : 419).…”

Section: Anthropological Peace Researchmentioning

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Peacebuilding and conceptualisations of the local

Bräuchler

Naucke

2017

Soc Anthropol

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The frequent failure of international peace missions and the ‘crisis of the liberal peace’ led to the promotion of a local or cultural turn in peace research and work that focuses on the role and meaning of culture, local actors and a mostly unspecified ‘local’ for peacebuilding processes. This pushes peace and conflict studies to engage with the subject area of anthropological research, which poses a challenge for disciplines such as political and legal sciences. In contrast to the critiques of the critique of the liberal peace, which seem to have led to a circular debate, this special section aims to take the debate to the next step. It does so through anthropologically informed methodological and conceptual advancements that the local turn is asking for and by providing a better understanding of how the local can become an important reference point in peace and conflict studies without essentialising it. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the contributions to this special section highlight the importance of ethnographic research and anthropological framing in analysing the ambivalence of the local in peacebuilding and the contributions anthropology can make to the interdisciplinary field of conflict and peace studies.

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“…In violent conflict, the civil population is often perceived as innocent victims with no other choice than to collaborate with armed actors or leave the region (for a critique of this perception, see Naucke ; also Heitz‐Tokpa ). The Peace Community San José de Apartadó counteracts this image of the passive victim by assuming its own position and adopting an agenda that is independent of the armed actors (Sanford : 273–4; also Aparicio ; Valenzuela ).…”

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Peacebuilding upside down? How a peace community in Colombia builds peace despite the state

Naucke

2017

Soc Anthropol

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Critics explain the modest success of liberal peacebuilding with the neglect of local particularities. While the local is upgraded in concepts like local ownership, the role of the state and the direction of peace operations remain untouched. Following normative models of Western states, most peacebuilding practitioners and scholars assume that the state has an interest in peaceful public order, while local actors are deemed to have no potential for peace transformation. Anthropological concepts assume that the state is not a monolithic entity. Neither is the state seen as having an a priori purpose for existence. This approach allows for the analysis of certain state practices as rational that, from the perspective of normative state models, might appear dysfunctional, e.g. human rights violations by armed forces. In the 50 years of ongoing conflict in Colombia, some state institutions and regional elites seem unwilling to promote a peaceful public order throughout the country. Paradoxically, it is in these conflict regions that some communities have created strategies to increase their safety. Drawing on the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, I will show how these communities develop the potential for peace as their strategies for self‐protection counteract conflict causes.

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The onset of war as a novel experience: dislocation and familiarisation in Côte d'Ivoire, late 2002

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Commander–community ties after civil war

Commander–community ties after civil war

Peacebuilding and conceptualisations of the local

Peacebuilding upside down? How a peace community in Colombia builds peace despite the state

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