Abstract

The black continent seems to be today a mission territory for international operations, in which military aspects are now inseparable from political and economical parts. It is however not sure that these operations, trying to influence from outside conflicts that are mainly civil wars, have positive consequences. Their contrasted results forces us to interrogate the capacity of the West to resolve African conflicts.Read full text in French ( 450ko-pdf)

Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos is research officer at the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD). He studies armed conflicts, forced dislocation and the evaluation of the humanitarian aid in Sub-Saharan Africa. A graduate from the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) of Paris, where he teaches, he lived several years in Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya.