05 October 2021
What does the future hold for Middle Eastern states?
From independence until the advent of the Arab Spring, Middle Eastern states have suffered due to their constituting principle, a…
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08 July 2021
#IpevLive | The Uses and Abuses of Memory: Case Study on Palestine and Israel
In this last #IpevLive conversation that took place on June 29, 2021, Inès Abdel Razek from the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, Alain Dieckhoff from…
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08 July 2021
#IpevLive | Civil Society, Youth and Academia: A Necessary Axis for a Successful Transition in Reducing Violence in the MENA Region
In the sixth #IpevLive conversation “Civil Society, Youth and Academia: A Necessary Axis for a Successful Transition in Reducing Violence…
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08 July 2021
#IpevLive | Seizing the Opportunities Created by the Pandemic
In the fifth #IpevLive conversation “Seizing the Opportunities Created by the Pandemic”, that took place on June 15, 2021, Kamel Doraï from the…
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08 July 2021
#IpevLive |The Pandemic as a Magnifying Glass
In the fourth #IpevLive conversation “The Pandemic As a Magnifying Glass”, that took place on June 8, 2021, Rim Turkmani…
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08 July 2021
#IpevLive | Arab Uprisings: The Evolution of Arab Society
In the third #IpevLive conversation that took place on June 1, 2021, Osama Gharizi from the US Institute of Peace and Mohamad Moustafa Alabsi From…
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28 May 2021
#IpevLive | Listening to Women in the MENA Region Before and After the Arab Spring
The second #IpevLive conversation that took place on May 25, Nadje Al-Ali (Brown University), gender consultant and researcher Ahlem Bousserwel, and…
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27 May 2021
Ipev podcast collection
Welcome to our podcast collection featuring conversations with MENA experts and academics on transition from violence in the MENA region.…
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24 May 2021
#IpevLive | Navigating the Transition from Violent Radicalization in the Context of Autocracy
The first IpevLive conversation that took place on May 18 gathered Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut), Andrew Lebovich (European…
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31 March 2020
Women, violence and exiting from violence with a gendered approach: MENA region and diaspora
The working paper presents a gendered approach to understanding violence and ways of exiting violence. It emphasises the importance of…
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18 November 2019
Chapiter 1 | For a Comparative, Anthropological and Contextualised Approach to Radicalization
In recent years, radicaliation resulting in violent extremism has increased considerably. In both East and West, it has become a…
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18 November 2019
Chapter 9 | Women and violence, gendered approach: ANMO region and diaspora
Through the prism of gender, this chapter offers an analysis of violence and the means to exit violence. Starting from…
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18 November 2019
Chapter 8 | Reconstructing The Self
The end of extremely violent conflicts such as the Rwandan genocide or the Apartheid in South Africa has led us…
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18 November 2019
Chapter 7 | Uses and misuses of memory
By proposing an “ethics of memory” which is composed of 6 recommendations, the analysis “Uses and misuses of memory” questions…
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18 November 2019
Chapter 6 | Reconciliation and justice
The study “Reconciliation and Justice” analyzes justice policies implemented in post-violence contexts ((armed conflicts or authoritarian and repressive regimes) commonly…
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18 November 2019
Chapter 5 | Public policies against violence
The study “public policies against violence” offers a reflection on the public policies set up to fight against violence. By…
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18 November 2019
Chapter 4 | Separatism and exiting violence
“Separatism and the end of violence” highlights the issues at stake in the relationship between independence and political violence, and…
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18 November 2019
Chapter 3 | Between Salafism, sectarism and violence : the new faces of radicality
The research work carried out by Mohamed-Ali Adraoui, Samir Amghar, Fabio Merone, Marc Sageman and Dominique Thomas proposes to study…
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18 November 2019
Chapter 2 | De-radicalization
This research work conducted by Shashi Jayakumar, Bartolomeo Conti, Rahma Dualeh, Phil Gurski, Anne-Sophie Hemmingsen, Fredrick Ogenga, Ekaterina Sokirianskaia is…
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17 April 2018
Marie Kortam | About the phenomenon of radicalisation in Lebanon
Marie Kortam is a member of the working group “Radicalisation, a comparative perspective“. She is an Associate Researcher at the…
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06 March 2018
Interview with Alfonso Pérez Agote | History and memory in today's Spain
Alfonso Pérez-Agote, professor of sociology at the University Complutense of Madrid and coordinator of the Groupe Européen de Recherche Interdisciplinaire…
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01 February 2018
Interview with Scott Straus | History, memory, and exiting mass violence
Scott Straus is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at UW-Madison, where he also serves as Associate Chair/Director of…
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20 December 2017
Richard Rechtman | The concept of "resilience"
Richard Rechtman is leader of the working group “Reconstructing the self: comparative lessons“. In this video, he explains why he…
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05 December 2017
Farhad Khosrokhavar | "We need an anthropological, sociological and psychological point of view as statistics can be misleading"
The International Panel on Exiting Violence has organized with Carnegie Corporation of New York and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace…
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01 December 2017
Mohamed Ali Adraoui | "The new generation of Jihadists has no Salafist background"
The International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV) has organized with Carnegie Corporation of New York and Carnegie Endowment for International…
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01 December 2017
Nadje al-Ali | "There is a link between increased militarisation of society and the increase of gender-based violence"
The International Panel on Exiting Violence has organized with Carnegie Corporation of New York and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace…
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20 October 2017
Jérôme Ferret | Understanding Radicalisation
What is radicalisation? Is it organised around charismatic figures? What is the specificity of radicalisation in the Spanish Basque country?…
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16 October 2017
Interview with Adel Bakawan | 3 questions about the independence of Kurdistan
Adel Bakawan, leader of the IPEV Working Group Independentism, separatism, irredentism and State building, answers three questions about the issues of…
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18 September 2017
Pénélope Larzillière | "When female activists engage in violent action, it is considered to be doubly transgressive"
Pénélope Larzillière, leader of the working group Women and violence with a gendered approach: MENA region and diaspora is a…
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08 September 2017
Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro | "Syria’s murderous stalemate: the imperative to break it"
On 3rd and 4th of July 2017, the International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV), along with a dozen of North-African…
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01 September 2017
Radicalisation: a comparative perspective
On 3rd and 4th of July 2017, the International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV), along with a dozen of North-African…
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01 September 2017
De-radicalisation: a comparative perspective
On 3rd and 4th of July 2017, the International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV), along with a dozen of North-African…
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01 September 2017
Reconciliation and justice
On 3rd and 4th of July 2017, the International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV), along with a dozen of North-African…
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01 September 2017
Between Salafism, sectarianism and violence: the new faces of radicalism
On 3rd and 4th of July 2017, the International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV) gathered in Tunis for a symposium…
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01 September 2017
Public policies against violence | " Certain public policies against violence are inefficients "
On 3rd and 4th of July 2017, the International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV) gathered in Tunis for a symposium…
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07 June 2017
Saad Salloum | "The real fortune of the Middle East is diversity"
Saad Salloum is an Iraqi academic specializing in Iraqi minorities and human rights. He is assistant Professor and heads the research department…
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22 May 2017
Approach | Reconstructing the self: comparative lessons
By Lotte Buch-Segal, Hélène Dumas, Clara Han, Emilie Medeiros, Richard Rechtman and Valérie Robin-Azevedo Political support for the reconstruction of…
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03 May 2017
Mohamed-Ali Adraoui | 3 questions about Salafism
Mohamed-Ali Adraoui is the leader of the working group Between Salafism, sectarianism and violence: the new faces of radicalisation. He…
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27 March 2017
Approach | WOMEN AND VIOLENCE: MENA REGION AND DIASPORA
By Najwa Adra, Nadje Al-Ali, Sana Farhat, Danièle Joly, Pénélope Larzillière, and Nicola Pratt 1/ Gendered approach to violence. General:…
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15 March 2017
Danièle Joly | "Women activism is nothing new in the history of muslim countries"
Danièle Joly is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She is the leader of…
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06 March 2017
Elisabeth Claverie | Reconciliation, justice and exiting violence
Elisabeth Claverie, leader of the working group “Reconciliation and Justice“, examines the notions of justice and reconciliation in a context…
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24 February 2017
Olivier Roy | Religion and de-radicalisation, an approach in need of development
On January 18-19, 2017, the IPEV kick-off gathered 100 IPEV members, researchers and practicioners in Paris for the first time.…
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23 February 2017
Tarek Mitri | Reflections on policies of prevention and de-radicalization
On January 18-19, 2017, the IPEV kick-off gathered 100 IPEV members, researchers and practicioners in Paris for the first time.…
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15 February 2017
Hillary Wiesner | "Your panel will bring a multiplicity of frames of analysis"
During the IPEV Kick-Off, Hillary Wiesner from Carnegie Corporation of New York, IPEV’s principal grant provider, presented the value of…
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15 February 2017
Thierry Mandon | "IPEV can increase the value of public action"
On January 18-19, 2017, the IPEV kick-off gathered 100 IPEV members, researchers and practicioners in Paris for the first time.…
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14 February 2017
Michel Wieviorka | "We do not limit ourselves to one particular region of the world"
IPEV co-director, Michel Wieviorka presents the IPEV project during the kick-off and stresses one of its strengh: the project deals…
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09 February 2017
Eric Briat | "We need the fruit of your reflections to build our policies"
In January 2017, during the project Kick-Off, Eric Briat from the Commissariat général à l’égalité des territoires, held a speech…
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08 February 2017
Michel Wieviorka | IPEV can make exiting violence an integrated research area
During the kick-off of the International Panel on Exiting Violence, Michel Wieviorka, IPEV co-director and President of the Fondation Maison…
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05 February 2017
Tarek Mitri | IPEV can contribute to a new policy conversation
Tarek Mitri, Director of the Policy Institute at the American University of Beirut, former Lebanese Minister and former Special Representative…
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03 February 2017
Yvon Lebot | What we can learn from Latin America
On January 18-19, 2017, the IPEV kick-off gathered 100 IPEV members, researchers and practicioners in Paris for the first time.…
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02 February 2017
Farhad Khosrokhavar | 4 things to know on radicalisation
Farhad Khosrokhavar, senior researcher at the EHESS, is the leader of the working group For a Comparative, Anthropological, and Contextualised…
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31 January 2017
Kick-Off | Michel Wieviorka introduces the International Panel on Exiting Violence
On January 18-19, 2017, the IPEV kick-off gathered 100 IPEV members, researchers and practicioners in Paris for the first time.…
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