Nous accueillons Yuki OKABE

Yuki OKABE est professeur assistant au Centre d'éducation mondiale à l'Université de Kobe, au Japon. Il effectuera un court séjour entre Paris et Aix-en-Provence du 13 au 19 septembre.

Research Project: “Politics of Fratricidal Violence in the Lebanese Civil War”.

This project explores the internal dynamics of fratricidal violence during the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), challenging dominant narratives that portray the conflict as primarily driven by sectarian divides or foreign intervention. While inter-group confrontations—such as those between Christians and Muslims, or between Lebanese actors and external powers like Syria and Israel—have been extensively documented, internal conflicts within sectarian groups remain underexplored. These intra-group struggles, though often absent from postwar memory and discourse, were critical in shaping the wartime landscape and its aftermath. By focusing on internal violence, the  project highlights forms of legitimacy-making, territorial consolidation, and elite contestation that are obscured by the dominant “master-cleavage” framework. This perspective offers new insights into how factionalized violence within religious communities functioned not as a symptom of chaos but as a mechanism of political ordering. In doing so, the study addresses a gap in both civil war and Lebanese conflict research by foregrounding the logic of violence rooted in proximity, shared space, and intimate knowledge.

Yuki OKABE est joignable à l'adresse électronique suivante : y.okabe22[at]gmail.com