Visiting faculty member, International History and Politics, Development Studies

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Abstract
Terrorism is omnipresent in modern conflicts. In addition to presenting new security challenges, this also has major implications for researchers and journalists.

Member of the Graduate Institute’s visiting faculty and visiting fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou will give a presentation exploring whether new waves of terrorism represent an evolution or revolution. He will also discuss what this political violence means for social science research on armed conflict as well as for media coverage.

Dr Mohamedou has authored works on Al Qaeda, the Iraq war and was the Mauritanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation from 2008 until 2009. He was also former Director of Research at the International Council on Human Rights and Associate Director of the Programme on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University where he founded the Transnational and Non-State Armed Groups Project.

This News Briefing will take place in English. The speaker can take questions in French and English.

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