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Fragile peace process in Ivory Coast
08/09/2005 By Isabel Moreno Carballal
Ivory Coast has been living a situation that fluctuates between a civil war and a fragile peace agreement for three years.
This country, rich in natural resources and with a complex ethnic and religious makeup (Muslims, Catholics and Indigenous beliefs), suffers some of the problems typical of post-colonial States: authoritarianism, institutional fragility, elite patriomonialism, alliances not always beneficial to society with economic participants of the former colonial power and dependence on international market prices for its products.
On the other hand, the identity factor is present, both in the attempts to impose an excluding Ivorieté and in the migratory phenomenon.
Some of those migrations, in addition, come from countries that have experienced a high degree of armed conflict in the last few years, such as Liberia and Sierra Leona.
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Keywords
Conflict resolution Ivory Coast Peace process UNBio author: Isabel Moreno Carballal
BA in Journalism with expertise in International Relations by the Università degli Studi di Perugia (Italy), and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Isabel Moreno has been Press Officer for DeARTE, Feria de Galerías Españolas, and has worked for the Abdul Aziz Saud Al-Babtain Foundation as external consultant and PR.
