Tid: 03/02/2017 09:00 til 03/02/2017 12:15

Sted: DIIS ∙ Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, auditoriet, Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51 A (nær Nordhavn S-station) Østerbro, København

Arrangør: N/A

Truer de skrøbelige stater i Nordafrika og Sahel-regionen Europas sikkerhed?

The seminar will be conducted in English and French (one presentation) and will be live streamed on diis.dk

 

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use our online registration form on

https://conferencemanager.events/statefragilityinNorthAfricaandtheSahelregion/sign-up.html

And do so no later than Thursday 2 February at 12.00 noon.

The collapse of the state of Libya after Gaddafi in 2011 and the subsequent creation of a breakaway “Islamic State” in Northern Mali by Al-Qaida affiliated Islamist militias in 2012 have brought the question of state fragility in North Africa and in the Sahel region high on the European security agenda.

Seen from a European perspective, the collapse of Libya opened a direct route for ill-contained and poorly managed security threats from the Sahel region to easily reach European borders.

In current policy lingo these threats are in particular manifested in three figures of non-state actors: Islamist terrorists and rebels, organized criminals and smugglers, and illegal migrants and refugees.

At this DIIS seminar we engage a number of experts and scholars on the Maghreb and the Sahel to assess whether and how state fragility in Europe’s southern neighbourhood regions should be seen as a threat to European security.

The seminar forms part of the Sahel-Maghreb Research Platform hosted by DIIS. 

 

Speakers

 

Kristian Fischer, Director, DIIS

Rasmus Alenius Boserup, Senior Researcher, DIIS

Jean Hervé Jezequel, Deputy Project Director for West Africa, International Crisis Group

Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde, Postdoc, DIIS

Mohamed Eljarh, Non-resident Fellow, The Atlantic Council

Hans Lucht, Senior Researcher, DIIS

Mohamed Ben Lamma, Professor, University of Auvergne

Luis Martinez, Senior Research Fellow, Sciences Po

 

 

Programme

Læs videre på http://www.diis.dk/node/7096