Enrica Picco

Lawyer and researcher on conflict, justice and peacebuilding

About me

I am the Central Africa Director at the International Crisis Group, where I help prevent and mitigate conflict in the region by overseeing field research in Cameroon, the Central African Republic and Chad.

As an international lawyer and researcher, I bring nearly twenty years of field experience to my work, combining management positions with research and teaching.

I started my career with Médecins Sans Frontières, where I conducted conflict analyses and developed advocacy strategies in several sub-Saharan countries. More recently, as an independent consultant, I have worked with a wide range of institutions such as the United Nations (including as a member of the UN Panel of Experts on the Central African Republic), the European Union and international NGOs.

My research focuses on conflict dynamics, peacebuilding and justice issues. I have also contributed to the book Making Sense of the Central African Republic and lectured on refugee law and transitional justice.

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Injustice anywhere
is a threat to justice
everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr

Publications

Podcast – Afrique 360°

International Crisis Group

Plus que jamais, l’Afrique est au centre de toutes les attentions, que ce soit en raison des rivalités géopolitiques sur le continent, de la recrudescence des coups d’État militaires, ou des conséquences du changement climatique. Une fois par mois, dans Afrique 360°, Enrica Picco et ses invités analysent les événements qui font la une en Afrique, tout en avançant des solutions pour tenter de résoudre les crises.

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Tchad : le choix de Mahamat Déby

Le Monde

Enrica Picco, d’International Crisis Group, appelle le président de transition à nommer une commission d’enquête indépendante pour faire la lumière sur la répression des manifestations du 20 octobre. Visit the link

Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict: Children should be able to return to school

The Africa Report

Co-authored with Murithi Mutiga. Since 2017, fighting between separatist insurgents and the military has disrupted the education of over 700,000 children in Cameroon’s two Anglophone regions. As the school year starts in September, education in the conflict-affected...

Centrafrique : éviter une nouvelle désintégration de l’armée

International Crisis Group

Dissoute en 2013, l’armée centrafricaine est aujourd’hui présente dans tout le pays. Des problèmes structurels risquent cependant de la fragiliser à nouveau. Pour éviter les dérives, Bangui et ses partenaires internationaux devraient appliquer les principes du Plan...

La MINUSCA en Centrafrique. Les casques bleus impopulaires

Institut Français des Relations Internationales

Corédigé avec Thierry Vircoulon. Déployée depuis 2014, la Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation de la République centrafricaine (MINUSCA) cristallise l’hostilité des Centrafricains, qui se traduit par des manifestations publiques...

Rebels, Victims, Peacebuilders: Women in Cameroon’s Anglophone Conflict

International Crisis Group

Years of fighting between separatists and the state in Cameroon have hit women hard, uprooting hundreds of thousands. The government and external partners should step up aid for the displaced. Donors should start planning now for including women activists in future...

Cameroon Needs an African Cup Ceasefire

International Crisis Group

Cameroon will shortly begin hosting the biggest Africa Cup of Nations in history. Eight games will be held in Anglophone regions riven since 2016 by conflict between the government and separatists. Internal and external actors should seize the opportunity to broker a...

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From Being Forgotten to Being Ignored: International Humanitarian Interventions in the Central African Republic

Making Sense of the Central African Republic

Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful coups. Over the course of these upheavals, the country has become a laboratory for peacebuilding initiatives, hosting a two-decade-long succession of UN and regional peacekeeping, peacebuilding and special political missions. Drawing together the foremost experts on the Central African Republic, this much-needed volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the country’s recent history of rebellion, instability, and international and regional intervention.

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