ABSTRACT

Since 2015, Burkina Faso has faced a rapid deterioration of national security, giving rise to new Security Force Assistance (SFA) programmes. This article investigates a ‘peacebuilding’ SFA project that assists in integrating state security forces, civil society, self-defence groups called Koglweogo, and the general population. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, which revealed social friction caused by the co-optation of the Koglweogo, the article examines the broad range of security practices and moralities within these ‘security assemblages’. Furthermore, by comparing how the different project participants try to make security work, the article challenges state-centred assumptions about vigilantism in Africa.

摘要

自 2015 年以来，布基纳法索面临着国家安全的迅速恶化，从而产生了新的安全部队援助 (SFA) 计划。本文调查了一个“建设和平”SFA 项目，该项目有助于整合国家安全部队、民间社会、自卫组织 Koglweogo 和普通民众。基于民族志实地考察，揭示了由 Koglweogo 的合并引起的社会摩擦，本文考察了这些“安全组合”中广泛的安全实践和道德。此外，通过比较不同的项目参与者如何尝试使安全工作，本文挑战了以国家为中心的关于非洲警惕性的假设。