On 9 December 2021, at Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Rome, PREVEX-researchers Francesco Strazzari, Luca Raineri (both Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, SSSA, Italy), Abdoul Wahab Cissè (the Alliance for Rebuilding Governance in Africa, ARGA), Morten Bøås, Alessio Illocchi...
The mystery of resource mobilization by jihadist rebels
Jihadists in the Sahel have opportunistically sought resources - kidnapping, smuggling - but it remains to be seen whether gold mining is a game-changer. In this article, the principal investigator in the PREVEX-project, Morten Bøås, delves into the realm...
The role of the EU in preventing, countering violent extremism in the Sahel
What is the role of the EU in the fields of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) in the Sahel? Abdoul Wahab Cissé (ARGA) presented the latest PREVEX ‘Policy Brief summarizing the EU and other stakeholders’ prevention strategy towards...
Training workshop on violent extremism in Mali
In October, 2020, the Alliance pour Refonder la Gouvernance (ARGA), a partner in the PREVEX-project, held a training workshop for parliamentary assistants on the prevention of violent extremism in Mali. Since 2012, the Malian state has been challenged...
Seven Years of Promises: The Situation in Mali (Podcast)
In this interview by Slovenian Student Radio, one of the oldest independent radio stations in Europe, known for its reports from under-reported areas of the world, NUPIs Research Professor (and PI of PREVEX) Morten Bøås, explains the current situation...
Sombre post-election outlook for Mali’s Keïta
The Nordic Africa Institute has published an article by Mattias Sköld, where Research Professor Morten Bøås from the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) comments on the post-election results in Mali. For the full text, please visit the Nordic...