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Third Conference on Africa Development and Asian-African Cooperation

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7:30 am October 2020

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10:30 am October 2020

Webinar (2.30pm Beijing time (UTC+8) / 7.30am Morocco Time (UTC+1))

El Mostafa Rezrazi (Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South) and Ihssane Guennoun (International Relations Specialist, Policy Center for the New South) will be speaking at the Third Conference on Africa Development and Asian African Cooperation, organized by the Institute of African Studies of Nanjing University (China) and IEAS of Hanyang University (Korea), with the partnership of Peking University and African Center for Asian Studies. This webinar will take place on Wednesday, October 23rd 2020 starting 2.30pm Beijing time (UTC+8)/ 7.30am Morocco Time (UTC+1).

The previous conferences held in Morocco (2016) and South Korea (2018) focused on Africa’s development and Asian-African cooperation. In 2019, Nanjing University launched the international cooperation exchange programs, leading to the establishment of a platform for Africa development studies: Partnership of African Development Studies (PADS) in the framework of Asian-African cooperation and multilateral cooperation with the support from all the members.

This webinar will address the following theme:

  1. 1 - The pandemic of Covid-19 and impact on Africa development
  2. 2 - The economic growth and development in African countries
  3. 3 - Multilateral cooperation in Africa after the pandemic
  4. 4 - Challenges to African development in the future
  5. 5 - Humanity exchanges for Africa development
Speakers
Ihssane Guennoun
International Relations Specialist (On Leave)
Ihssane Guennoun is an International Relations Specialist at the Policy Center for the New South. She contributes to the Geopolitics and International Relations research program by focusing on West Africa. Her research also covers security in the Sahel region as well as recent developments of Asian players in Africa. Prior to joining the Policy Center in 2015, she spent six months at the German Marshall Fund of the United States within the Wider Atlantic program. Ihssane has a double degree in International Relations from the School of Governance and Economics of Rabat (Morocco) and the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence (France). ...
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 at the Univ ...