AHC: Peaceful Algerian independence

You'd need Algeria to not be an integrated part of France or have a large French population which would require a POD in the 1800s ....
 
Does it have to be all of current Algeria? If Algerians accepted a compromise where France can keep the Departments in exchange for Independence for the Territories I think a peaceful resolution would be possible. How viable Territorial Algeria would be as an independent state is another question.
 
It might be possible to make Algeria an Overseas Department like French Guiana or some of the pacific islands as a transition from colonial territory to full independence by the '70s or '80s. There needs to be universal suffrage for at least a decade or two to get the populace used to going through the motions of democracy, a pre-set timetable for independence might reduce the worst of the violence.
 
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