Politikk og sikkerhet i Vest-Afrika: Elfenbenskysten, Senegal og Mali
Flere land i Vest-Afrika opplever i økende grad at deres sikkerhet er satt i fare av vold i forbindelse med valg, statskupp og terrorisme.
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Stig Jarle Hanse (NMBU), Vegard Vibe (UiB) and Pauline Lemaire (CMI) in conversation with Carmeliza Rosario (UiB/CMI).
Across several countries in West Africa security concerns related to election violence, coup d’états and the threat of terrorism are on the rise. In Ivory Coast, the presidential election held on 31 October was boycotted by the opposition, bringing back memories of civil war and election violence. In Mali, On 18 August 2020, members of the Malian Armed Forces stormed the Soundiata military base in the town of Kati, before heading to the capital Bamako, where they forced the President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta to resign and dissolve the parliament. This was the second coup d’état in the past eight years.
As both Mali and Ivory Coast face a tense political and security situation, with their own Islamist threats, Senegal seems to stand out from its neighbours as a more politically stable country which has yet to experience Islamist terrorism.
In this conversation Carmeliza Rosario (UiB/CMI) talks with Stig Jarle Hansen (NMBU), Vegard Vibe (UiB) and Pauline Lemaire (CMI), as they hope to shed light on the political and security context in West Africa. How have the elections in Ivory Coast played out? Why has Senegal not experienced threats and destabilization as Ivory Coast and Mali? How long will it remain immune?
Stig Jarle Hansen is a Professor at NMBU interested in organized crime; religion and politics (including religious terror). He has conducted research mainly in the Red Sea region, Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Kenya. His is author of the book 'Horn, Sahel, and Rift: Fault-Lines of the African Jihad.'
Pauline Lemaire is a doctoral candidate at the department of Comparative politics, UiB and researcher at CMI, investigating the role played by social media in post conflict African countries. Previously, she worked as a senior analyst, focusing on the political and security situation in West Africa.
Vegard Vibe is a PhD candidate at the department of Comparative Politics, UiB. His research focuses on Human Rights, particularly the politicization of LGBT-rights in Senegal, and more broadly in West Africa.
Carmeliza Rosario is a Social Anthropologist and coordinator at the Global Challenges at UiB. She researches poverty, inequality, vulnerability and human rights in Mozambique. As Northern Mozambique is facing a fresh Islamist insurgence, she is also interested in local and global dynamics of conflicts, with emphasis on exclusion and inequality.