Before the CDVR, Côte-d'Ivoire was still recovering from a decade of conflict and unrest, rooted in both political discord and ethno-communal tensions, which culminated in the 2010-2011 post-election crisis.[1] The refusal of outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo to accept Ouattara as the winner of the 2010 election led to a violent political crisis during where at least 3,000 civilians were killed, upwards of 150 women were raped, and human rights violations were committed by both parties.[6] On April 27, 2011, Ouattara promised to create a commission following the model of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and announced former Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny as the commission's leader.[3] The commission was charged to, “elaborate a typology of human rights violations,” “establish truth and situate responsibility for past and present sociopolitical events,” “listen to victims and obtain the recognition of facts by perpetrators” and “identify and make recommendations toward the fight against injustice, inequalities of all kind, tribalism, nepotism, the exclusion, as well as hatred in all of their forms”.[3] Notably missing was the commission's lack of amnesty powers or powers to absolve anyone.[2] In December 2014, Banny presented the CDVR's final report to then-President Ouattara.