Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso de Graduação
Mobilização social, estabilidade política e legitimidade: as sociedades Poro e Sande na formação do estado na paz e nas guerras da Libéria
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2017-12-12Autor
Almeida, Alessandra Jungs de
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Resumen
The presence of pre-colonial secret societies in the contemporary Liberian State highlights the
discussion of the relationship of indigenous institutions in Africa with the National State and
society. Based on this discussion, the present research aims to analyze the influence of the
Liberal Poro and Sande secret societies on three dependent variables: legitimacy, political
stability and social mobilization, at the time of formation of the State of Liberia in peace and in
the armed conflicts of 1989 and 1999. The hypothesis adopted is that in Liberia during the peace
period the secret societies Poro and Sande legitimized central government leaders through a
socio-political system of local governance, institutionalizing the relationship with society,
generating low social mobilization and influencing the political stability of the country. In the
war period, the Poro and Sande societies influenced the lack of legitimacy of the government
vis-à-vis society, being an instrument of social mobilization and influencing the political
destabilization of the regime, which generated the armed conflicts of 1989 and 1999. The study
is justified for addressing the state and war in Africa from the perspective of indigenous
institutions. Institutions that have resisted colonial violence and are present in modern Africa
both through the state as political elites and in parallel or in front of it as insurgent groups. For
this, the present research proposes to carry out a case study with hypothetical-deductive method
and bibliographic research technique with qualitative variables.