EMPATHIE ET COMMUNICATION INTERCULTURELLE EN CONTEXTE DE RÉCONCILIATION NATIONALE EN CÔTE D’IVOIRE

Abstract

The crises that occurred at the opening of the Ivorian political market revealed latent intercommunal antagonisms. The post-electoral violence of 2010 following the Ouagadougou political agreements further intensified this already yawning divide with the high number of dead and maimed, leading to a process of national reconciliation from the end of 2011. This work poses the general problem of empathy in the interaction between Ivorian communities in the context of national reconciliation in relation to their mutual social representations. It aimed to find out about the relations between the communities in the north and south in the aftermath of the post-electoral crisis. The communes of Abobo and Yopugon were used for data collection from a sample obtained by the snowball technique using a hierarchical evocation questionnaire processed with Excel and Evoc 2005 software. The prototypical analysis method was used to analyze the results. The results highlight a crisis of trust between the two communities due to their unfavorable reciprocal social representations which do not favor any cooperation or true communication. There can be no empathy between these communities because they do not share the same central cores and therefore no reconciliation between them. Thus, there are relations of mistrust in encounters between the communities of the north and south of Côte d'Ivoire linked to their unfavorable reciprocal social representations.