AFRIQUE DEMOCRATIE & DEVELOPPMENT N°014 JUIN 1997
LES MECANISMES DE CONTROLE DES ELECTIONS PAR COUR SUPREME
Par Filiga Michel SAWADOGO
Summary:
Using the Burkina Faso's experience Mr Sawadogo shows us how the Supreme Court intervains in electoral process. He explains that this intervention makes the election credible on the condition that the public has confidence in it.
ALCHEMY FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER
Overselling "Preventive Diplomacy"
By Stephen John Stedman
Summary:
In the following text, the writer suggests that preventive diplomacy, which is a means of concertation, management and maintain ace of conflicts be developed. Moreover, he is however against seeing private organizations taking the place of policymaker, because preventive diplomacy is not a matter for adventurers. The desire to do something at cost can produce disastrous results preventive diplomacy requires human and material resources, and is from conflict prevention.
Elections et démocratie en Afrique
ELECTIONS: UNIQUE VOIE D'ACCES AU POUVOIR ?
Par Professeur falilou DIALLO
Summary:
In this text, Professor Diallo questions on the reality of the democratic transition taking place on the continent, by advocating the necessity of defining and applying the legal rules for the creation of conditions necessary for a permanent political dialogue between parties in power and parties of the opposition.
La géoscopie politique du Cameroun, bestiaire géopolitique des fractures sociales*
Jean NJOYA
Summary:
It has become a common thing to say that in Africa, ethny in an instrument of political manipulation. Politicians use it to stay as long as possible in power. Although paradoxical as it may seem, the use of ethny in the case of Cameroon. Where there are multitudes of ethnic groups makes it on the contrary a factor of equilibrium and stabilization of social conflicts.
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