EVENT PROGRAM:
Opening Remarks:
David Ibsen
Executive Director, Counter Extremism Project (CEP)
Dr. Stefan Friedrich
Head of the Department Sub-Saharan Africa, Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)
Presentations:
Development of al-Qaeda in the Western Sahel Region and Current Operational Capabilities of JNIM
Bakary Sambe
Director of the Timbuktu Institute-African Center for Peace Studies (Dakar, Niamey), founder of the Observatory of Religious Radicalisms and Conflicts in Africa
Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown
Member of the advisory board of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and former Coordinator of the ISIL, Al-Qaeda and Taliban Monitoring Team, United Nations Security Council
Status of ISWAP and ISGS in West Africa and Sahel
Dr. Kwesi Aning
Professor and Director, Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Accra, Ghana.
Pieter Van Ostaeyen
CEP Project Analyst, PhD candidate Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers.
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