Terrorism: Report to the United Nations

First Independent Evaluation Report of UN Counter-Terrorism Programs Extracts from the Independent Meta-synthesis under the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, United Nations, December 2021. Independent synthesis report prepared by an external evaluation team consisting of Punit Arora (Team Leader), Reda Benkirane (CounterTerrorism Expert) and Xiomara Chavez (Evaluation Expert) at the request of the  United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact  Lire plus / Read more

Edge Dynamics Program

Edge Dynamics Innovations in Mind, Behaviour, and Culture As part of its activities, the Chair aims to deepen the specifically human and social dimensions of complexity through emulation and implementation of multidisciplinary approaches, transversality, and critical thinking. Our ambition is to support the various stakeholders of UM6P in the context of ongoing transformation and learning processes. The acquisition of “transdisciplinarity” tools will reinforce their autonomy and equip them with a… Lire plus / Read more

Sahel: Radicalization, Violence and (In)Security

What 800 Sahelians have to say. Perception study on the drivers of insecurity and violent extremism in the border regions of the Sahel, under the direction of Reda Benkirane, The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue /UNDP, 2016. [version française / emission Geopolitis / émissions Sous les pavés, Babel]  In 2015, with the financial support of Japan, the United Nations commissioned the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue to carry out a research on radicalization and violence… Lire plus / Read more

People

Reda Benkirane – Chair / Affiliate Full Professor Reda Benkirane, sociologist and anthropologist, is a researcher in social sciences and an expert in international relations who has been working for UN agencies and NGOs for more than thirty years. His empirical research covers mainly urbanization, complexity, radicalism, and contemporary issues on Islam. Read more about his bio-bibliography here. Email: reda.benkirane[at]um6p.ma Nicolas Sperry-Guillou – Edge Dynamics Program Director  Nick is a… Lire plus / Read more

Anthropo-logiques I: Nous autres & l’universalisme français

Réda Benkirane « La crise de l’universalisme français », Nous autres, Sous la direction d’Erica Deuber Ziegler et Geneviève Perret, Gollion: Infolio éditions / Genève: Musée d’ethnographie, collection tabou 1, 2005. Nous autres, Sous la direction d’Erica Deuber Ziegler et Geneviève Perret Gollion: Infolio éditions / Genève: Musée d’ethnographie, collection tabou 1, 2005. [en libre accès depuis le site web du MEG] Si l’utilité sociale de l’anthropologie est sans cesse rappelée par les événements contemporains,… Lire plus / Read more

Reda Benkirane – ABS/UM6P

Chair of Complexities ∞ Humanities, Affiliate Full Professor, Africa Business School, UM6P. Senior Lecturer, University of Fribourg Research Affiliate at the Wolfram Institute Research Associate at the Laboratoire d’Analyse des Sociétés et Pouvoirs/Afrique – Diaspora (Laspad, Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis of Senegal) Email: reda.benkirane[at]um6p.ma                                            [at] to be replaced with… Lire plus / Read more

Luc Steels, Promises and limitations of Contemporary AI

UM6P Science Week, 21 February 2023, 52mn Introductory texts (English, French and Arabic) by Hind Aboulazm  Drawing by Sophie Lenormand Luc Steels is a linguist by training and one of the main thinkers on artificial intelligence and robotics. He offers  alternative paradigms to artificial intelligence, addressing issues about body model, language, origins of language, origins of symbols, evolution, cooperation, and about how a mind could grow in artificial agents. AI… Lire plus / Read more

The Semantic Sphere by Pierre Lévy

Book review / online consultation Pierre Lévy, The Semantic Sphere 1: Computation, Cognition and Information Economy, Wileys, 2011. Treatise on Semantics   Principles of the Semantic Sphere According to its internal principle, the semantic sphere is Leibnizian, that is to say perspectivist and monadological (Monadology, § 56). According to its external principle, the semantic sphere is Deleuzian, that is to say, in constant reterritorialization, rhizomatic. Fractal aggregation. From the point of… Lire plus / Read more