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After 29 years, the Casamance conflict is still raging in Senegal, becoming probably one of the longest civil wars in Africa and even beyond. It has not only become a stalemate for belligerents, peacemakers and other main actors, but it also challenges the way scholars and other specialists talk and think about the duration and even the notion of “civil” war. Not forgetting that defining a civil war is in itself challenging,1 I argue that the Casamance conflict can be described as “civil” when analyzed with reference to its civilian nature. In other words, the focus of this analysis is on the effects of this war on the populations or citizens, and their role and relationship with the conflict. Of particular concern are the responses formulated by civil populations in the borderlands.
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Tandia, A. (2013). When Civil Wars Hibernate in Borderlands: The Challenges of the Casamance’s “Forgotten Civil War” to Cross-Border Peace and Security. In: Korf, B., Raeymaekers, T. (eds) Violence on the Margins. Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137333995_9
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