Cyril MUSILA
Former Associate Research Fellow, African Studies Center
Research interests:
- Conflicts and security in the Great Lakes region, Central and West Africa
- Post-conflict, reconstruction, and peace studies
- Regional economic cooperation
- Transborder dynamics
- Regional integration infrastructures
- Natural resources management
Cyril Musila is a former Associate Research Fellow at Ifri's African Studies Center.
Cyril Musila holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris), and teaches African Conflict Geopolitics and Peace Research at the Université Catholique de Paris. He has also gained international experience working as an expert for the African Union and as a Program Coordinator at OECD and UNECA.
How transparent are the Democratic Republic of Congo’s regional strategies?
Summary : In the last fifteen years, the Kivus have been prey to a series of violent episodes that have led to humanitarian crises of great magnitude. Mechanisms of economic predation, land issues, interference from neighboring countries, or ethnic issues have often been cited to...