The Political Legitimacy of What? Media coverage of the Duclert report and legitimisation of armed groups in Africa: a quintessential pharmakon Author: Pascal Cohet 19 June 2021 The media coverage of the Duclert report illustrates one of the basic axioms of Cindynics: the pharmakon principle, which states that any action aiming at ... Read More Actions for The Political Legitimacy of What? Print conflict resolution disparities duclert report rwanda pharmakon
Duclert Report: Systemic Disparities Ethnicist interpretive framework vs ethnic identity cards Author: Pascal Cohet 08 June 2021 After noticing the absence of a description of US post-Cold War peacekeeping policy in the Duclert report, which constitutes a topological disparity with ... Read More Actions for Duclert Report: Systemic Disparities Print disparities duclert report rwanda
Duclert Report: Topological Disparities The omission of PDD 25 Author: Pascal Cohet 06 June 2021 In a previous post, we presented the different stages of the deconflictualisation process enabled by the cindynical method. Before reducing the prospective ... Read More Actions for Duclert Report: Topological Disparities Print disparities duclert report rwanda
Twitter in Nigeria: Corporate Censorship and Cybercolonialism Big-tech self-regulation: a neocolonial concept Author: Pascal Cohet 05 June 2021 President Buhari was censored by Twitter after posting a controversial message on June 1. In response, Twitter was suspended in Nigeria. Twitter then ... Read More Actions for Twitter in Nigeria: Corporate Censorship and Cybercolonialism Print information warfare censorship degeneracies facebook twitter nigeria self regulation
Disparities and Divergences: From Middle-East to Rwanda The construction of deconflictualisation Author: Pascal Cohet 03 June 2021 Second Order Cindynics rely on a strict modeling that sometimes seems difficult to grasp. In summary, considering subjectivities leads to situation ... Read More Actions for Disparities and Divergences: From Middle-East to Rwanda Print disparities duclert report divergences rwanda
Killer Autonomous Weapons in Africa: Media Delay and Degeneracy Two or three months later.... Author: IFREI 02 June 2021 Last March we reported the use of Turkish killer drones in autonomous mode in Libya. This information was initially noticed on March 17 by Laurent Lagneau ... Read More Actions for Killer Autonomous Weapons in Africa: Media Delay and Degeneracy Print disinformation censorship degeneracies autonomous weapons disparities deficits
Rwanda: Publication of the Duclert and Muse Reports The purpose of the cindynical hyperspace Author: Pascal Cohet 05 May 2021 The publication of the Duclert report and of the final version of the Muse report illustrates the interest of the notion of cindynic hyperspace, which ... Read More Actions for Rwanda: Publication of the Duclert and Muse Reports Print hyperspace duclert report rwanda
A Short Story of Cindynical Concepts From ambiguity to resilience Author: IFREI 21 April 2021 Since the early 90s, cindynical concepts have been constructed gradually. The cindynical vocabulary has also evolved, which can sometimes be confusing if ... Read More Actions for A Short Story of Cindynical Concepts Print propensity vulnerability dissonances resilience deficits
Vulnerability, Resilience and Social Darwinism No, Cindynics do not justify social Darwinism, quite the contrary. Author: Pascal Cohet 25 March 2021 In a book devoted to the ambiguities of the term resilience, Magali Reghezza-Zitt and Samuel Rufat note that this term, initially used in the fields of ... Read More Actions for Vulnerability, Resilience and Social Darwinism Print propensity vulnerability resilience
Turkish Killer Autonomous Weapons Are Used in Africa, UN Report Says Still no ban on killer robots, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt asks Biden to reject the ban Author: IFREI 19 March 2021 The UN Panel of Experts on Libya has just published a report denouncing the total ineffectiveness of the arms embargo imposed on Libya in 2011 by the ... Read More Actions for Turkish Killer Autonomous Weapons Are Used in Africa, UN Report Says Print conflict conflictuality autonomous weapons disparities
COVID-19 Vaccine: The Failure of the Pasteur Institute Second-order Cindynics, conflictuality reduction and operational efficiency Author: IFREI 17 March 2021 The announcement of the termination of the Pasteur Institute's main COVID-19 vaccine candidate dismayed the French. At first, it seemed relevant to ... Read More Actions for COVID-19 Vaccine: The Failure of the Pasteur Institute Print covid-19 conflictuality second-order friction
2019 Failed Coup in Gabon: Probabilities vs Cindynics Construction of collective action: third-order MRC modeling and power assessments Author: IFREI 12 March 2021 In a previous post, we described how going beyond probabilistic approaches enabled the mastery of propensities to emerge as the central concept of the ... Read More Actions for 2019 Failed Coup in Gabon: Probabilities vs Cindynics Print power conflictuality coup gabon second-order third-order