Position(s) at the Institute

Visiting Lecturer , International History

Head of the Regional Capacity Development Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Profile

PhD, Political Science, City University of New York
Previously the Associate Director of the Harvard University Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research in Cambridge (2004-2008), where he founded the Transnational and Non-State Armed Groups Project, Dr Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou is Head of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy since 2010. He also served earlier as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mauritania (2008-2009), Director of Research of the International Council on Human Rights Policy (1998-2003), and Research Associate at the Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations in New York (1997), and was Scholar in Residence at the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Cambridge (1996-1997). His research focuses on political violence and transnational terrorism, the transformation of warfare, political liberalisation and transitions to democracy, and contemporary Middle Eastern and North African socio-political developments and conflicts.

Areas of expertise

• Armed conflicts
• Foreign policies
• Multilateral diplomacy and negotiation
• Political violence, terrorism
• Religion and politics

Selected publications

• "La Genèse du conflit au Sahel", Esprit, février 2013.
• List of other publications

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