Peacemaking in an authoritarian context in Africa: Promoting peace from below in Cameroon

Lefort - Rieu, Claire

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Peacemaking in an authoritarian context in Africa: Promoting peace from below in Cameroon

Lefort - Rieu, Claire

2024 • In African Affairs, 123 (490), p. 103 - 123

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Geography, Planning and Development; Sociology and Political Science

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[en] Cameroon, traditionally overlooked on the international peace agenda, has recently received increased attention due to mounting security challenges. Operating under an authoritarian regime that denies conflicts while promoting a narrative of stability, the course of international peace-from-below initiatives is profoundly influenced by this constrained political environment. Through in-depth case studies of three ongoing humanitarian crises - the Central African refugees' influx, the Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province insurgency, and the Anglophone conflict - this article contends that localized peace approaches, centring on grassroots reconciliation, may obscure broader structural issues, silence non-state political claims from below, and absolve the state of its responsibilities. Embracing such methodologies not only reinforces authoritarian dynamics but also exhibits a performative dimension, contributing to the establishment of a 'victor's peace' in the absence of military victory.

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Anthropology

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Lefort - Rieu, Claire ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut de recherche en Sciences Sociales (IRSS) > IRSS: Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle ; Social Anthropology, The Centre Population et Développement (Ceped), Université Paris Cité, Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement, Paris, France

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English

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Peacemaking in an authoritarian context in Africa: Promoting peace from below in Cameroon

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30 January 2024

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African Affairs

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0001-9909

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1468-2621

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Oxford University Press

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123

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490

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103 - 123

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WHO - World Health Organization
ENS Paris - École Normale Supérieure

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This work was supported by the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) under a three-year PhD grant and by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research in Health and Humanitarian Practices and Policies.

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