Political participation in its “extreme” Middle Eastern context
PAVE Project | Webinar


Published at 9 April 2021
Despite the preponderance of research on violent extremism and prevention and control policies in general, the key concepts generated by this discipline are problematic because they are often normatively loaded and empirically imprecise. To provide a better understanding of the subject of violent extremism, both scientific and in public policies, we have chosen to engage in dialogue within this webinar, researchers, stakeholders and practitioners whom we call “from the inside”, who question the construction of radicalization and violent extremism within political relations in the MENA region.
Our objective is to constitute a new and original approach, from the bottom, to understand the different realities of violence, radicalization, violent extremism and terrorism, by comparing, confronting and criticizing the different public policies and the different approaches implemented to tackle the phenomenon of violent extremism in the studied states. Beyond radicalization and violent extremism, the question of civil, armed, military and political engagement and participation since the Arab revolts will be posed in an articulation between the local, the national and the global.
We seek to understand how the relations between political actors within states located in the MENA region are articulated with regional issues; how past and present political conflicts are played out between national actors and permanently redraw the map of political and community affiliations, both in discourse and in practice. Local, national and regional contexts will thus be studied as catalysts for political relations between (state and non-state) actors in the region.
On the basis of a meeting every three weeks, we will meet starting from April 2021 around a communication based on a country research work, complemented by the intervention of an activist, practitioner or stakeholder shedding light on the issues raised, and leaving plenty of room for collective discussion.
Several themes and areas of research will be addressed during the sessions:
Area 1. Commitment, governance and policies
Area 2. Law, fight against terrorism and penitentiary institution
Area 3. media treatment of political and power relations
Area 4. Citizenship vs. sectarianism: public action, self-awareness, new ways of participation and political organization
The webinar will be held in the three languages, Arabic, English and French.
April, 22th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM CET
Virtual Citizenship: Saudis in Clubhouse by Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed
May, 6th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM CET
Interventions by Iyad Kallas and Wassim Naboulsi
Marie KORTAM (Ifpo-FMSH), Mohammed SHARQAWI (FMSH)
In partnership with Ifpo.
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