Gérer un conflit armé comme une cause judiciaire : l’exemple d’Amnesty International en Côte d’Ivoire
Sara Dezalay
T his article aims to pry open the “black box” of a public
activist stance, analyzing Amnesty International’s discourse on the ongoing
Ivory Coast crisis since September 2002, drawing on participatory observation conducted in the Paris research offices of the organization’s international secretariat. Tackling the question from the angle of law, analysis of the
discursive strategies used by this organization as well as the broader context
in which the producers of this discourse are involved reveals gradual pragmatic arrangements having to do with the building of expertise within the
organization. This pragmatism appears not only in the strategies the organization has developed to adapt to the new situation of a postbipolar context, in
particular the “urgency” of armed conflicts, but also in the changing rules of
impartiality on which its moral authority is based.
• Le PRO comme aménagement pragmatique des structures de production
centralisée d’une expertise militante
• Répondre à l’urgence des conflits armés ?
• Dimensions pratiques de l’impartialité en situation de conflit armé