Professor Andrea Bartoli joined the Stimson Center for a discussion on the various aspects of conflict resolution and how they apply to the current unrest in Ivory Coast. Dr. Bartoli is the Drucie French Cumbie Chair of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution as well as the Director of the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He works primarily on Peacemaking and Genocide Prevention.
Dr. Bartoli emphasizes the importance of how a polity is created in post colonial states. Issues of representation, political expression, and politic formations all follow from the issue of the polity. Bartoli sees the current violence as not just an isolated incidence of the expression of frustrations, but as part of a long-traggectory of state formation that deserves the attention of peace-builders and the American Congress.
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