Violences et régionalisation en Afrique centrale

Abstract

As a factor of regionalization and "de-regionalization", wars contribute to the functional organization of the greater Central African region. Over time, political violence appears as a modality for the functioning of regionalization, and as a dimension of fragility associated with the so-called Central African position. In the short term, in the dual context of the jihadist insurrection of Boko Haram and of the civil war in Central African Republic, two regionalized armed conflicts, they are participating in the recomposition of the distribution of trade and the hierarchy between regional corridors. The case of northern Central Africa thus highlights the importance of cross-border political violence, against a backdrop of weak regional institutional integration. The formation of large regions can also involve violence.

Keywords

• regionalisation
• violence
• war
• Boko Haram
• Central African Republic
• lake Chad