Events

Old Paths, New Riders: Transnational Organized Crime in the Maghreb-Sahel Belt

Workshop

Historically, the Maghreb-Sahel belt has been a hub of transit and trade between Sub-Saharan Africa and the Mediterranean coasts. Today, the absence of national governments both on the political and economic level, coupled with major security issues, gave room for numerous militant groups to take advantage of the prevailing vacuum in the region by sinking into a territory abandoned by the authorities with the support of a neglected local population. In parallel, numerous criminal interests managed to develop in this environment with a set of groups exploiting the opportunities presented by this disorder.

Bridging Europe and Africa: The Tunisian Nexus

Panel on Tunisia's political and economic development and its potential role as link between Europe and Africa, in the framework of the Rome MED 2018 conference

Dialogue program: Towards a Shared Understanding of the Mediterranean

Dialogue program on current political and economic developments in the Southern Mediterranean

Statehood in the MENA Region - the nexus between power, leadership and governance

Seminar on current developments concerning statehood in the MENA region

afric'Up Africa Startup Summit

International Conference

Hosted under the auspices of the Tunisian Ministry of Communication Technologies and Digital Economy, African start-up entrepreneurs, international experts and practitioners were brought together during the first afric’Up Africa Startup Summit on 2 and 3 October 2018 in Tunis.

Anabtawi 28: Individual Rights, the Guarantor of Human Dignity

Regional Human Rights Training

The KAS Regional Program South Mediterranean in cooperation with the Arab Institute for Human Rights (AIHR) brought together 28 human rights activists and defenders from 14 countries for a regional training course on individual rights in Tunisia.

Jihadist Landscapes in North Africa

Workshop

While the so-called Islamic State (IS) appears to have been largely defeated in North Africa, experts agree that the threat posed by Salafi-jihadist groups in the region is not averted. IS and al-Qa’eda are competing over the influence on local groups, transnational terrorist networks enable the exchange of know-how and hardware, and the return of ideologically radicalized and battle-hardened foreign fighters is raising serious challenges for their countries of origin.

Shaping the Digital Future

Euro-Mediterranean Youth Forum

On 9 October 2018, 26 young NGO representatives from 20 countries in Europe and the Mediterranean region met in Lisbon to discuss the opportunities and challenges for young people in times of digital transformation at the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Forum "Shaping the Digital Future".

Tunisia’s National Cyber Defense Strategy

Expert workshop in support of the formulation of Tunisia's national cyber defense strategy

« Smart development model » : a new economic horizon for Morocco

Presentation of the study "Smart Development Strategy for the Maghreb: Structural Reform, A New Role for the State, Regional Integration" and discussion of the recommendations with an expert roundtable