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Expert on Al Qaeda added as new plenary speaker - Last chance to submit abstracts - deadline 1 june
We are pleased to announce that the Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mauritania (2008-2009) and author of Understanding Al Qaeda – Changing War and Global Politics (Pluto Press, 2007; University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, Second Edition, Pluto Press 2011), will deliver a plenary address at the conference.
His address, entitled ‘Al Qaeda and the Limits of Transnational Terrorism, will examine the tensions within Al Qaeda as it attempted to expand trans-nationally and yet engaged locally.
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou is Visiting Professor in the International History and Politics, and Development departments at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, and Associate Fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy. A former Harvard University scholar where he co-directed the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mauritania in 2008-2009. He is regarded as a leading international specialist on the new forms of transnational terrorism.
Further information on the plenary: http://decadeofterrorismandcounterterrorism.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/expert-on-al-qaeda-added-as-new-plenary-speaker/#more-55
Call for papers http://decadeofterrorismandcounterterrorism.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/conference-call-for-papers-issued/
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