APSACO 2021 - WORKSHOP : Index Presentation: Global Peace Index

June 22, 2021

The Global Peace Index is the flagship publication of the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) and is now on its fourteenth edition. The Global Peace Index (GPI) presents one of the most comprehensive data-driven analysis on trends in peace worldwide, the economic value of peace and how to develop peaceful societies. The GPI and its findings are widely used by governments, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, academic institutions and think tanks. -------- Moderator: Khalid Chegraoui, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South Speaker: Serge Stroobants, Director Europe and the MENA Region, Institute for Economics & Peace Discussants: - Annika Hilding Norberg, Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding, Geneva Center for Security Policy - Yonas Adaye Adeto, Director, Institute for Peace & Security Studies (IPSS) - Jalal Abdel-Latif, Senior Social Policy Advisor, Gender and Poverty, Social Policy Division, UNECA - Yann Bedzigui, Independent Analyst

Speakers
Khalid Chegraoui
Senior Fellow
Khalid Chegraoui is Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and Vice Dean of Political Sciences and International Relations at the Faculty of Governance, Economic and Social Sciences of the Mohammed VI University.  He began his teaching and research career in 1992 as a Research Assistant Professor at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah University in Fez after earning his first doctorate in African Studies from the Mohammed V University in Rabat focusing on West Sub-Saharan Africa. He also earned a Doctorate of State in African Studies from the same University in 2002, where he focused on Contemporary West Africa, in 2003 he became Professor of History and Political Anthropology at the Institute of African Studies, Mohammed V University, consultant on African and Middle Ea ...
Serge Stroobants
Director Europe and the MENA region, Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)
Serge Stroobants is the Director of Operations for Europe and the MENA region at the Institute for Economics and Peace. He is a former Colonel in the Belgian Armed Forces with an academic specialization in political sciences, international relations, security and defense, global risk analysis, foresight and crisis management. He holds degrees from the Belgian Royal Military Academy, the Free University of Brussels, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III (France), the German General Staff College and Vesalius College. He is an Assistant-Professor at Vesalius College in Brussels, teaching courses on NATO and the Transatlantic approaches to security and on Global terrorism and radicalization. He is considered to be a senior academic specialist on global terrorism and radicalization in B ...
Jalal Abdel-Latif
Ethiopia
Senior Fellow
Jalal Abdel-Latif is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South and Senior Social Policy Advisor, Gender and Poverty, Social Policy Division, UNECA. Jalal has over 25 years of professional experience in the areas of corporate social responsibility, civic engagement, grant making, project design and enhancing the capacities of non-profit organizations. He began his career as researcher and capacity analyst at UCLA African studies center, before working as Grants manager for USA for Africa (the We Are the World project) in California. He was also a co-founder and CEO of Inter-Africa Group, a regional think thank.  He was previously appointed by the late Prime Minister of Ethiopia to serve on the Ethiopian Telecommunications Board of Directors to assist in its modernization ...
Yonas Adeye Adeto
Commissioner, the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission and Former Director, Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS)
Associate Professor of Peace Studies, Former Director, Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS), Addis Ababa University (AAU); Current Commissioner, the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission (ENDC). He has published peer reviewed articles in international journals, and edited book chapters on: Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution, Security Sector Governance, Peace Education, Preventing Violent Extremism/Terrorism, Diplomacy, International Relations and Global as well as Regional Security. He has taught at Addis Ababa University over twenty-five years and is currently offering various courses related to theories, issues and praxis of Peace, Global and Regional Security to MA and PhD programmes at IPSS and elsewhere in Africa and beyond. Dr. Adeto holds a PhD in Peace Stud ...
Paul Simon Handy
Senior Advisor, Institute for Security Studies
Dr Paul-Simon Handy is a Senior Advisor to the ISS Regional Offices in Dakar and Addis Ababa. He first joined the ISS in 2007 and held various research and management positions, including division head, research director and acting deputy executive director. Between 2013 and 2018 he was on the UN Panel of Experts on the Central African Republic before rejoining the ISS in 2019. Paul-Simon is a visiting lecturer at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He held teaching positions at the Freie University of Berlin before acting as Associate Fellow with the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin. Paul-Simon studied political science and international relations at the universities of Yaounde, Berlin and Leipzig where he obtained his PhD in 2005 ...

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