APSACO Talks 2020 - WORKSHOP 2: Global Peace Index

September 25, 2020

Le Global Peace Index (GPI) est la publication phare de l'Institute for Economics & Peace (Institut pour l'économie et la paix - IEP) et en est actuellement à sa quatorzième édition. Il présente l'une des analyses de données les plus complètes sur les tendances de la paix dans le monde, sa valeur économique et la manière de développer des sociétés pacifiques. Le GPI et ses conclusions sont largement utilisés par les gouvernements, les organisations internationales, les organisations non gouvernementales, les institutions universitaires et les groupes de réflexion. Le GPI couvre 99,7 % de la population mondiale et classe 163 États et territoires indépendants en fonction de leur niveau de paix. L'état de la paix est mesuré sur la base de trois domaines thématiques de la paix négative : le niveau de sûreté et de sécurité sociétales, l'étendue des conflits nationaux et internationaux en cours et le degré de militarisation. La paix négative est l'absence de violence ou de peur de la violence et constitue un complément à la paix positive. En outre, le GPI comprend une analyse des tendances de la paix positive, qui peut être définie comme désignant les attitudes, les institutions et les structures qui créent et maintiennent des sociétés pacifiques. Les analyses figurant dans le GPI sont basées sur 23 indicateurs qualitatifs et quantitatifs provenant de sources éminemment respectées. Cette édition du GPI comprend une étude sur l'évolution des troubles civils au cours de la dernière décennie. Elle examine également les nouvelles frontières de la recherche, avec des chapitres consacrés aux résultats de la publication portant sur la COVID-19 et la paix et sur le registre des menaces écologiques (ETR). Dans son rapport sur la COVID-19 et la paix, l'IEP décrit l'impact mondial de la pandémie, la résilience et les capacités d'adaptation des pays, ainsi que les mutations dans les systèmes socio-économiques et les modes de conflit et de violence. Le rapport examine également les principaux aspects du monde post-pandémie et commente les initiatives prospectives visant à remodeler l'économie mondiale ATELIER 2 : « Indice mondial de la paix » Présentation du « Global Peace Index » : Discours d'ouverture Mahamat Saleh Annadif, chef de la MINUSMA, ancien ministre des affaires étrangères du Tchad Chair : Omayra Issa, Journaliste et présentateur Speaker : Serge Stroobants, Directeur du département Europe et MENA, Institut pour l'économie et la paix (IEP) Discutants: - Rama Yade, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council - Abdelhak Bassou, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South MOT DE CLOTURE : Karim El Aynaoui, President, Policy Center for the New South

Speakers
Abdelhak Bassou
Senior Fellow
Abdelhak Bassou is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. He is also an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. Bassou has had an extensive career in Moroccan National Security, where he served in various capacities including as head of the border division from 1978 to 1993. He was the former director of the Royal Institute of Police in 1998 and served as Head of Regional Security (Errachidia 1999-2003, Sidi Kacem 2003-2005) and as Central Director of General Intelligence from 2006 to 2009.   He holds a master's degree in political science and international studies from the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Social Sciences in Rabat. His academic research delves into inte ...
Omayra Issa
journalist, Radio-Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Emerging Leader)
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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 ...
Rama Yade
Director, Africa Center Atlantic Council
Ambassador Rama Yade is director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center and senior fellow for the Europe Center. She is also a teacher of African affairs at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco and, since 2017, at Sciences Po Paris. Prior to joining the Council, she was a consultant for the World Bank, advising the institution on education, youth, sports, human capital, and disability issues in Africa. She also has strong experience in the private sector as an editor in London, where she overviewed a collection of books about African millennials, and as director for development at a French consulting firm in corporate and social responsibility. Ambassador Yade has over a decade of experience working in French, European, and international politics. At the age of thirt ...

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