Conflito silencioso: análise sobre a guerra civil internacionalizada na república centro africana

Abstract

This article aims to analyze and reflect on the ongoing civil war in the Central African Republic (CAR), seeking to frame it as an internationalized civil war, from the moment in which various types of foreign actors are identified whose interests merge into regional and international competition influencing the country's political and security panorama and consequently the current conflict. The article seeks to justify this position based on bibliographical and qualitative research, supported by books, reports, newspapers and websites that address the conflict. Therefore, supported by the theoretical argument that external actors prolong civil wars and identifying Russia's recent participation in the war as a key factor that confirms this narrative, it is concluded that the lack of international visibility regarding this war is covered by silent exploitation of the country's abundant natural resources while the CAR remains one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world.