[Un pays pressé : les coûts des réformes en matière de gouvernance locale au Rwanda.] Presque vingt ans après les horreurs du génocide, le Rwanda, qui apparait comme une réussite de premier rang au niveau africain, attire une attention considérable au niveau international. Ses performances économiques élevées, avec des taux de croissance atteignant une moyenne de h...

In the twenty years since the post-Cold War wave of democratisation spread across Africa, experiments in participatory governance have revealed fundamental contradictions between their normative bases and their practical application on the ground. Responding to calls for a greater focus on ‘the politics of everyday life’ including the actions of local actors in the...

The protracted conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has drawn sharp criticism regarding the model of liberal peacebuilding employed in the country. Critics emphasise the importance of local ownership of peacebuilding mechanisms at sub-national as well as national levels. This raises questions in relation to the popular legitimacy and efficacy of l...