Not an Ungoverned Space: Crime, Coping and Resistance in the Mali-Sahel Periphery
2. June 2016
Lecture Series of the MA-Program “International Administration and Conflict Management”
Morten Bøås is research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, Norway.
The Mali-Sahel periphery is not an “ungoverned space” captured and preyed upon by the transnational forces of global “crime-terrorism” nexuses, but an area of overlapping and competing networks of informal governance. Some have an agenda of resistance, others are more aligned with coping and criminality. What they share is that they are neither entirely state nor non-state, but somewhere in-between. Different competing “big men” vie for the role of nodal points in different networks of informal governance: some mainly profit-driven, others combining income-generating strategies with social and political objectives, yet others simply aiming to cope (and hopefully thrive in the future).
Thu, 2 June 2016, 5 pm
University of Konstanz, C 252