Publication

This Peace Brief reviews the factors that continue to divide Ivorian communities and stall the peace process in Côte d’Ivoire and provides reflections of a meeting of Ivorian civil society and religious leaders in Washington, D.C. It reviews the continuing saliency of citizenship and identity issues as conflict triggers in Côte d’Ivoire, examines the consequences of holding elections with the presence of an armed group, and summarizes the Washington Appeal issued by civil society and religious leaders.