Militarized youths in Western Côte d'Ivoire
Local processes of mobilization, demobilization, and related
humanitarian interventions (2002-2007)
Magali Chelpi-den Hamer
Leiden: African Studies Centre, African studies
collection 36, 2011.
The recent conflict in Côte d’Ivoire has led to the militarization of many
young civilians on both belligerent sides, especially in the west of the
country. What is of particular interest is that many of these youths have
assumed a function of ‘commuting’ conscripts, alternating periods of
semi-military work, where they had to report to some kind of warlike
hierarchy, with periods at home where they were back to a quasi daily
routine. This became particularly characteristic as the Ivoirian war evolved
into a situation of ‘no peace, no war’ with sporadic violence still
occurring, but only at certain periods and within specific settings. This
book is an in-depth examination of the different processes that led to their
militarization and demilitarization, in a context where borders between the
military, civilian, and humanitarian arenas have never been strict, and have
varied according to conflict phases, individuals’ social networks and extent
of locality of the recruitment.
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