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EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2019

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3:45 pm June 2019

The Policy Center for the New South is participating to EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2019, through the speaking role of Abdelhak Bassou in the conference agenda held under the theme “Civil Society and Social Movements in the Euro-Mediterranean Region”. In 2018, the PCNS was partner to this annual conference which was held in Rabat under the theme “Changing Euro-Mediterranean Lenses”.

The EuroMeSCo annual conference will be held on 18-19 June in Barcelona under the title “Civil Society and Social Movements in the Euro-Mediterranean Region”.

Over the last years, a number of social movements hit the roads and/or the social networks in a number of Euro-Mediterranean countries, representing only the visible tip of broader and more complex dynamics of the civil society iceberg.

The 2019 EuroMeSCo Annual Conference will explore these social movements and civil society dynamics in a Euro-Mediterranean comparative perspective. It will also analyse how policy actors, at the local, national and regional level, including the European Union, have engaged in relation with these movements and organisations and assess the potential of civil society as a driving force of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation and integration.

The conference is organized by EuroMeSCo and the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed).

Read more about the conference: https://www.euromesco.net/annual-conference/ 

Speakers
Abdelhak Bassou
Senior Fellow
Abdelhak Bassou is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. He is also an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. Bassou has had an extensive career in Moroccan National Security, where he served in various capacities including as head of the border division from 1978 to 1993. He was the former director of the Royal Institute of Police in 1998 and served as Head of Regional Security (Errachidia 1999-2003, Sidi Kacem 2003-2005) and as Central Director of General Intelligence from 2006 to 2009.   He holds a master's degree in political science and international studies from the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Social Sciences in Rabat. His academic research delves into inte ...