EVERYBODY IS LIVING ON IN HIS OWN SIDE: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FACED WITH THE CRISIS OF SOCIAL TIES IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE
EVERYBODY IS LIVING ON IN HIS OWN SIDE: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FACED WITH THE CRISIS OF SOCIAL TIES IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes the state of community relations in the department of Divo (Côte d'Ivoire) and its impact on the mobilization of communities living there, in local development actions. Perceived as a set of interventions to promote the act of “living together”, community development, is prescribed as an effective alternative to economic and social reconstruction in countries that have experienced war. With the episodes of political violence Côte d'Ivoire experienced, the new authorities and donors are trying to resort to this therapy to restore social cohesion and to boost economic activities. But in a context where political and ethnic polarization is still strong, the cooperation between communities is being hardly reconstituted; this makes community development actions’ success uncertain.

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