The Mandela Institute, in partnership with IAM and ASEAF, is organizing the conference:<\/p>\n
Monday, March 16, 2015 from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm<\/p>\n
Town Hall of the 2nd, Conference room,<\/p>\n
16 rue L\u00e9opold Bellan -75002 PARIS<\/p>\n
Metro: Trail – line 3<\/p>\n
Since September 11, 2001, terrorism in all its forms and manifestations has continued to be one of the most serious threats to international peace and security. It opened a new era: mini-terrorism was replaced by mega-terrorism. The \u00ab\u00a0war on terrorism\u00a0\u00bb is, since the only type of war waged by the West, a war both internal and external to States. The expression, coined at the time of the attacks of 11 September 2001, postulates the possibility of putting an end to terrorism and the construction of the normative context is certainly one of the key points, but it does not, in fact, propose a way of achieving this objective.<\/p>\n
Al-Qaeda has evolved into decentralized franchises. Terrorist organizations in North Africa and the Sahel region have evolved over the past five years. The terrorist threat has spread from North and East Africa to West and Central Africa, covering the Sahel, which extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Indeed, the stability of this region determines the security of the African continent and the world.<\/p>\n
Despite the countless fractures that criss-cross the region, and the decompartmentalization between the Mediterranean Maghreb and the Sahel, North Africa is confronted with the dynamics of the Daech in the subversive and terrorist field of conflict shaped and structured by the transnational jihadist movement, is called upon to define and apply an integrated strategic framework for the fight against terrorism. The global approach would make it possible to synergize a multiplicity of instruments, complementary to States’ initiatives.<\/p>\n
The question of the Islamic State, whose project is enthusiastically welcomed by the jihadist community and a force of attraction for some young Westerners, requires us to question this phenomenon. In view of the seriousness of the terrorist threat to the African continent and its populations, the conference will take stock of this complex and constantly changing landscape as well as the issues and challenges of transforming North Africa into a strategic area in the fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n
Mr Jacques Boutault, Mayor of the 2nd Arrondissement of Paris<\/p>\n
HEM Miguel Oyono Ndong Mifumu, Ambassador of Equatorial Guinea to France<\/p>\n
Moderation: Paul KANANURA, President of the Mandela Institute \/ Jean Baptiste HARELIMANA, Africa World Institute<\/em><\/p>\n Daech: global defence against a global threat<\/strong><\/p>\n General Dominique TRINQUAND, Defence and Security Expert, Director of External Relations of the Marck Group<\/p>\n The headlong rush of Daech and Al-Qaida, the two competing Salafist jihadist movements<\/strong><\/p>\n Alain Rodier, Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Specialist in Terrorism and Organized Crime, Director of Research at CF2R<\/p>\n What strategy to fight Daech?<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Mohamed Larbi HAOUAT, Associate Researcher at the Paris Academy of Geopolitics and IPSE<\/p>\n The Koran and terrorism<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Karim Ifrak, Arabic Codicology, Intellectual History and Life of Thought in the Muslim Worlds, C.N.R.S, UPR76<\/p>\n Counter-radicalization and geopolitics of the Maghreb<\/strong><\/p>\n Pierre Conesa, Former senior official of the Ministry of Defence, Senior Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and ENA<\/p>\n Testimony: Links between Sahel jihadists and Libyans in Mistrata<\/strong><\/p>\n Beatriz Mesa, Journalist and war reporter<\/p>\n Geopolitics of terrorism from the Maghreb to the Mashreq<\/strong><\/p>\n Prof. Abderrahmane Mekkaoui, Expert on Strategic and Military Issues, Professor at the University of Casablanca and Dijon, Administrator of the Mandela Institute<\/p>\nSpeakers<\/h3>\n