Bøger af Patrick Loko Backnick

Since the dawn of history, man has adapted to and modified his environment. With the development of the industrial era, the consequences of these modifications have accelerated to such an extent that today the climate system has been altered. We are now faced with anthropogenic global warming, and despite attempts to mitigate it through the adoption and ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, we are still a long way from achieving the targets we set ourselves. These phenomena can be slow, imperceptible on a human scale, but some episodes can manifest themselves more locally and more significantly. Their effects can be directly felt by populations, who will necessarily have to adapt to the new environmental state. But how have farming communities responded to environmental and climatic change?

Post-conflict management is therefore of fundamental importance in that it calls for the stakeholders to put in place a set of administrative, political, economic and diplomatic measures with a view to perpetuating the pre-conflict order. In other words, post-conflict management makes it possible to gradually but definitively heal the gaping wounds left in the flesh and hearts of those torn apart by the conflict.

The dense forests of the Congo Basin are considered a "hotspot" of global biodiversity, due to their supposedly "primary" character. Yet these forests remain among the most poorly understood in the world and, at the same time, among the most threatened. These threats affect not only the forests themselves and the species they contain, but also the indigenous societies (mainly Pygmies) and their traditional knowledge. Against this backdrop, we have set up a research project to gain a better understanding of human-forest relations and their consequences for plant biodiversity, on an ecosystem scale, in an area of dense semi-deciduous forest in the Central African Republic.

The events that have been unfolding in the Central African Republic for some time now have led ordinary people to question their identity, the reason for and the meaning they give to their commitment, which should lead to the reconstruction of a peaceful climate and a new framework for living together. Crime, rape, looting, inter-community violence have become commonplace, thus calling into question the value systems to which the citizen is attached as the founding cement of his society before the emergence of recurrent socio-political crises. As such, it is more than essential to seek to understand the meanings of developments in our own political and educational system, the role of family and religious institutions and the socio-cultural environment, in particular in the resolution of the crisis. The absence of strong complementary links between the family, the school and the socio-cultural environment undoubtedly leads to the decay of Central African society. How to build new identities through educational programs based on solid values.