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Winners of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Research Prize

We created the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Research Award in 2017 to support scientific research on Félix Houphouët-Boigny, now a historical figure who has passed into posterity. The award recognizes the best master’s and doctoral research on Félix Houphouët-Boigny, defended in the public universities of Côte d’Ivoire. The winner of the doctoral thesis receives a check for...Continue reading

Call for Contributions for the Eighth Issue of Haris Review to be published in December 2022

For its Eighth issue to be published in December 2022, the Haris Review is looking for contributions on topics of International Relations, Geopolitics or Strategic Studies. Articles should be original and substantive. The standards of presentation of the manuscripts are those of the CAMES (to be consulted on the website of the journal www.revueharis.org). The...Continue reading

Call for Papers for the Yamoussoukro International Colloquium on the descendants of migrants in West Africa

Yamoussoukro Symposium (Côte d’Ivoire) Theme: “They are called “taboussés/taboussis”, “dankasa” … the descendants of migrants in West Africa December 12-14, 2022 CALL FOR PAPERS Argument In West Africa, migration has been “a major socio-economic factor since the colonial conquests“. It is mainly internal migration in this subregion. Intensified in the colonial context, subregional migration was...Continue reading

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The founder of modern Côte d'Ivoire

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"Peace is not a word, it is behavior."

"Peace, which constantly needs exhortations, is a continuous acquisition, usually silent."

"The hungry man is not a free man."

"The sanctity of work also ennobles the one who carries the burdens or drives heavy machines, like the one who, in the silence of laboratories or offices, gives his task the best of his thought and care."

"It is easier to make war than to make peace."

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"Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be raised."

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