Xavier has worked on crisis context in Africa and Middle-East as a consultant and then for the French Development Agency (AFD). He covered Somalia, the Central African Republic and the Sahel region. Graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris Saclay in Economics, he has taught at Sciences Po Paris and Sorbonne University.
Xavier Lhote
Crisis prevention & Post-Conflict specialist, Africa department at AFD
1 published article
Opinion
Statebuilding, an approach that needs rethinking
Faced with contemporary social conflicts, the answer given by international stakeholders is a combination of “security and development” through, in particular, the reconstruction of the State. However, statebuilding, through its technical and apolitical approach, fails to address the social...