In New Caledonia, residents need to be listened to within the debates on the way forward for the archipelago | EUROtoday

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On the outskirts of the independence HQ of the Montravel district, a meeting point during the 2024 riots, in Noumea, on May 7, 2025.

“Your phrases are the strands with which we must forge the brand new mat of the nation. »» Through this picture, the Country Collective for Dialogue (CPPLD) sums up the ambition of its discipline work: greater than 1,000 testimonies collected from the riot of May 13, 2024, analyzed from a corpus of 73,600 phrases. From this mass of testimonies, that are all questions, emerges the face of a rustic “Crossing by distrust”marked by a “Collective trauma, [et le] feeling of not being listened to “.

But, past the discomfort, a line of pressure is important. “Despite all the things, there’s a want to reside collectively. This is a certaintyinsists Patrice Godin, anthropologist and member of the CPPLD. We have to search out the means to reside collectively. Anyway, we have now no selection. »» The evaluation of this transpartisan strategy brings out two fractures: one, generational, which mixes “Youth to violence”however who additionally emphasizes that “Reconstruction will go through the inclusion of youth and a reflection on the Kanak identity” ; the opposite, social, marked by “Food precariousness and health”. The discomfort expressed “Reduces the possibility of projecting itself towards a desirable future” and nourishes a “Frustration in the face of lack of recognition”notes the collective.

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