Civil Conflict and Firm Performance: Evidence from Côte D'Ivoire

Under what conditions does religion become a salient social identity? By measuring religious attachment among the people living astride the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire border in West Africa, an arbitrary boundary that exposes otherwise similar individuals to different political contexts, this article makes a case for the importance of the political environment in affecting the weight that people attach to their religious identities. After ruling out explanations rooted in the proportion of different religious denominations, the degree of secularization and the supply of religious institutions on either side of the border, as well as differences in the degree of religious pluralism at the national level, it highlights the greater exposure of Ivorian respondents to the politicization of religion during Côte d’Ivoire’s recent civil conflict. Methodologically, the study demonstrates the power – and challenges – of exploiting Africa’s arbitrary borders as a source of causal leverage.

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Political Influence of The Lebanese Diaspora in Côte D’ivoire Before the 2020 Elections

Afrika Tanulmányok / Hungarian Journal of African Studies ◽

10.15170/at.2018.12.4.11 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (4.) ◽

pp. 138-146

Author(s):

Alexander Shipilov

Keyword(s):

West Africa ◽

Civil Wars ◽

Cote D'ivoire ◽

Large Scale ◽

Côte D’Ivoire ◽

Political Influence ◽

Civil Conflict ◽

Cote D’Ivoire ◽

Political Processes ◽

Côte D'ivoire

The recent political developments that took place in West Africa, encompassing several bloody civil wars and the following reconstruction, were marked by the involvement of a number of regional and completely external stakeholders. It has been, furthermore, broadly acknowledged by the recent scope of globalization, international, and transnational studies that diasporas constitute a significant portion of the internal groups of interest in local political processes. This tendency is true to West Africa and, most particularly, Côte d’Ivoire, the country that has experienced the latest large-scale civil conflict among the states in this part of Africa.

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Elite Alliances and Conflict in Decolonized States

Mobilization and Conflict in Multiethnic States ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190065874.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 119-139

Author(s):

Manuel Vogt

Keyword(s):

Cote D'ivoire ◽

Côte D’Ivoire ◽

Field Research ◽

Civil Conflict ◽

Comparative Case Study ◽

Cote D’Ivoire ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

Côte D'ivoire ◽

Elite Interviews ◽

Group Mobilization

What explains different degrees of ethnic group mobilization and exclusion across decolonized states? And how can ethnic civil conflict be avoided in these states? This chapter addresses these questions on the basis of a comparative case study of Côte d’Ivoire and Gabon. Relying on evidence from in-depth elite interviews, collected during three months of field research, and secondary sources, the chapter illuminates the causal path leading from inequality and mobilization to violent conflict—or from transethnic cooperation and ethnic inclusion to peace—in these two cases. It also examines the historical origins of ethnic and transethnic organizations in the two countries. Highlighting the crucial impact of elite behavior, the evidence from Côte d’Ivoire and Gabon suggests that the historical nature of elite alliances decisively shapes patterns of inequality, mobilization, and, ultimately, violence in decolonized states.

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Child Health and Conflict in Côte d'Ivoire

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.102.3.294 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 102 (3) ◽

pp. 294-299 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Camelia Minoiu ◽

Olga Shemyakina

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Cote D'ivoire ◽

Côte D’Ivoire ◽

Civil Conflict ◽

Economic Stress ◽

Cote D’Ivoire ◽

Household Level ◽

Côte D'ivoire ◽

Negative Effect ◽

The Impact

We examine the impact of the 2002-07 civil conflict in Cote d'Ivoire on children's health status measured by height-for-age. We use pre- and post-war survey data coupled with information on the location of violent incidents to capture exposure to the conflict of children born during 1997-2007. Our results indicate that children from regions more affected by the conflict suffered significant health setbacks compared with children from less affected regions. Further, household-level victimization -- such as war-related economic stress, health stress, and displacement -- has a large and negative effect on child health in conflict-affected regions.

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