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Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolutions and Countering Extremism

From

30
5:00 pm October 2019

To

30
6:30 pm October 2019

Policy Center for the New South

Closed event

The Policy Center for the New South is pleased to receive a delegation from the Open Hands Initiative (OHI), a US-based nonprofit organization, on Wednesday, October 30th, 2019 at 17:00.

OHI is running the Salaam Fellowship for Conflict Resolution program, which brings together 20 high potential young professionals and college students from the U.S. And Morocco for critical skills training in negotiation and conflict resolution.

Our Senior Fellows, Mr. Mohammed Loulichki and Mr. El Mostafa Rezrazi will be sharing their long experience in the fields of peacebuilding, conflict resolutions and countering extremism.

To learn more about the Open Hands Initiative, please click here.

To learn more about the Salaam Fellowship for Conflict Resolution program, please click here.

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AGENDA
16:45 – 17:00

Welcome coffee
17:00 – 17:15

Keynote speech: “Peacebuilding and conflict resolutions”

Speaker:  Mohammed Loulichki, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South
17:15 – 17:30

Keynote speech: "Countering extremism"

Speaker:  El Mostafa Rezrazi, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South
17:30 – 18:30

Debate with the audience
 
Speakers
Mohammed Loulichki
Senior Fellow
Mohammed Loulichki is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. He brings over 40 years of comprehensive experience in diplomacy, conflict resolution, and human rights. He has served in various roles including as a member and Deputy Head of the Moroccan delegation to the 3rd Conference on the Law of the Sea (1982-1990), Head of the Department of Legal Affairs and Treaties at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1988-1991), and General Director for Multilateral Affairs in the same ministry (2003-2006).   He also acted as Morocco's Ambassador to Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Croatia (1995-1999), and was the Moroccan Government's Ambassador Coordinator with MINURSO (1999-2001). Furthermore, he se ...
El Mostafa Rezrazi
Senior Fellow
Dr El Mostafa Rezrazi is a professor of Crisis Management, and Security Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South who focuses on Terrorism, Security and East Asia studies. His area of Expertise covers Afro-Asian Affairs, Strategic & Security Studies, Terrorism, Extremism and Deradicalization, mainly from the view of Criminal; Legal and Forensic Psychology.  He got his Ph.D. in Regional & International Affairs from the University of Tokyo in 1998, and later a Doctorate from the University of Mohammed V on the Psychological dynamisms of Suicide Bombers (2014). He is the executive director of the Moroccan Observatory on Extremism and Violence, Director of the African Center for Asian Studies, Rabat. Currently, he is Visiting Professor a ...