RICHARD FILAKOTA, Rector of the Catholic University of Central Africa Professor at the Catholic University of Central Africa (Catholic Institute of Yaoundé). He is a specialist in religious facts (new religious movements, Islamism, religious fundamentalism, neopaganism, religious syncretism, etc.) and has published a book on Islamic renewal in Black Africa: the case of the Central...
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Cohabitation of Religions in Central Africa and their Socio-Political Inking
Professor RICHARD FILAKOTA, Rector of the Catholic University of Central Africa The global context is marked by the rise of religion. This phenomenon can be observed in Africa, the United States, Asia, even in Europe, the land of secularism. With regard specifically to the African continent, particularly Central Africa, the collapse of African states in...
Helping in Africa: Some Benchmarks for Thinking and Acting at the Dawn of a New “Post-2015” Approach
Denis MAUGENEST. A Former Rector of the Catholic University of Central Africa, Former Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of Central Africa (Catholic Institute of Yaoundé). He is the creator of academic institutions in Africa, and has published a book on Living Together Despite Everything: An Introduction to Political Society (PUCAC/ Les Éditions...
Prevention of Torture in Africa: between Conventional and Non-Conventional Standards
By Jean Baptiste HARELIMANA, President of the Orientation Council, IAM, Lawyer at the Nanterre Bar Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there has been a broad consensus that torture is unacceptable and that it is a crime under international law. The prohibition of torture does not seem to require flexibility, since...
Africa and International Criminal Justice
Mutoy Mubiala, Official at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva; visiting professor at the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg) and at the Ecole nationale d’administration (Paris). The views expressed in this column are personal and do not bind the United Nations. After contributing to the development of international criminal justice,...
Terrorism and counter-terrorism in Central Africa: what strategic vision for Chad and Cameroon ?
This note was published in the Multi-Year Observatory of Sociopolitical and Security Issues in Equatorial Africa and the Gulf Islands of Guinea, Groupe de Recherche et d’Information sur la Paix et la Sécurité (GRIP), January 22, 2015. Analysis note By Germain-Herve MBIA, Governance, Peace and Security Programme Officer at the Institut Afrique Monde (IAM) Introduction...
The Normative Force of the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity
By Jean-Baptiste HARELIMANA, President of the Orientation Council, IAM. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, and especially in the face of the current challenges of the power of the digital age, and the plural referentials that challenge not only cultural...
The Challenges of the African Emergence
By Germain-Hervé Mbia Yebega, Political Scientist, Governance, Peace and Security Programme Officer at the Africa World Institute The emergence of Africa is at the heart of many debates and arouses many passions in Africa as elsewhere. But what emergence are we talking about? And what is in this catch-all notion that is found all over...
Burundi: The Forward Flight
By Germain-Hervé MBIA YEBEGA, Political Scientist, Head of the “Governance, Peace and Security” programme, Africa World Institute The article was also published by Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group, December 14, 2015. Read the article.
ECOWAS Judge and the Burkinabe Democratic Revolution
By Jean-François AKANDJI-KOMBÉ, Professor at the Sorbonne Law School, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, President of IpaP – Pan-African Institute of Action and Prospective I- Decision and issues The decision, as all Africa now knows, is that of 13 July 2015. The judge is the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African...