UNIVERSITÉ, VIOLENCES, POUVOIR(S) : POUR UNE ÉTHIQUE DE LA COMMUNICATION

“A public university, a sanctuary of free thought, critical reflection, knowledge, sharing, and the philosophy of relationships... Creative, proactive, responsible, a guarantor of harmony and peace, for a regenerated Madagascar.” Such is the desired future for 2050. Observing the Ambohitsaina campus today reveals an institution at the center of political and financial power struggles, a theater of multidimensional and multifaceted violence: physical, symbolic, psychological, verbal... manifest or insidious, shattering energies, inhibiting academic ethics. The existing mechanisms — manipulation of texts, political-state dictatorship, commercial and military influence — have weakened its population and severely impacted perceptions. The institution is not exempt from the dictates of the dominant economic theology of the supranational state, whose applications will remain deadly for our societies if left unchallenged and unregulated. Our prospective, anticipatory, and strategic approach is uncompromising in the face of stagnant thinking. The globalization of violence today demands the audacity of a democracy rooted in humanity to be co- constructed through collective intelligence, drawing from our heritage to (re)think and (re)interpret, that of “Universal charity or human solidarity” (Dama-Ntsoha), which is emancipatory... that of empowering university actors to take control of their territory.

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04/09/2024