800 Sahéliens parlent du radicalisme

Babel, Espace 2, RTS, 18 novembre 2018, 11h03 Que disent les Mauritaniens, Maliens, Bourkinabés ou Camerounais de la radicalisation islamiste? Quel rôle prêtent-ils aux djihadistes dans la violence et lʹinsécurité qui règnent au Sahel? Un rapport intitulé “Radicalisation, extrémisme violent et insécurité au Sahel”, basé sur 800 interviews, a été… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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             … Continue reading