Security Praxis

Negotiating with Jihadist Groups: NIJAR’s Preliminary Findings Presented at EUI Workshop

On Friday, May 16, 2025, the research team of the NIJAR project was invited to present its preliminary findings at a workshop organized by the Muslim World Working Group of the European University Institute (EUI). The project “NIJAR – Negotiating with Islamist and jihadi armed groups: practices, discourses and mechanisms across Asia and Africa” is a 24-month research initiative launched in December 2023, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research under the Research projects of re ⋙

NIJAR, jihadists, transnational jihad, Syria

Research Highlights

SHUT-MED Prin project final conference, 5-6/06, SSSA Pisa

Conference “The Changing Governance of Migration in the Mediterranean and Beyond”, in the framework of the PRIN project ⋙

Workshop Digital Reconfigurations, University of Padova 3-4/06

Digital Reconfigurations. Exploring the interplay between data, infrastructures and social processes, University of Padova, June 3-4, 2025 ⋙

Seminar Wider Mediterranean. Crisis or opportunity? 5/05 Bologna

Wider Mediterranean. Sea of Crisis or Sea of Opportunity? Aula 21 Piazza Scaravilli 2, University of Bologna, 40126 ⋙

Transitional justice failure? The international responses to Yazidi genocide

On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State (IS) attacked the Yazidi community in Iraq’s Nineveh Province, Sinjar region, resulting in mass killings and enslavement of at least 12,000 ⋙

Defense pact

The Darwinian moment in the EU: The Defense pact

Either it adapts and evolves, or it doesn't survive: here we are at the Darwinian moment of a united Europe, after the alignment between the USA and Russia. ⋙

Kako Nubukpo

Interview with Kako Nabukpo, University of Lomé (Togo) Part II

This is the second part of the interview with Kako Nubukpo – Full Professor of Economics at the University of Lomé (Togo), former WAEMU Commissioner in charge of Agriculture, Water Resources, ⋙

panafricanism

Interview with Kako Nabukpo, University of Lomé (Togo) Part I

During this interview, Kako Nubukpo – Full Professor in Economic at the University of Lomé (Togo), Former WAEMU Commissioner in charge of Agriculture, Water Resources and Environment, former Minister of Long-term ⋙

Anthropocene

The Anthropocene impact on the de-peripheralization of the Arctic

The Arctic is among the world's most climate-fragile regions, being very responsive to temperature increases. In the Anthropocene epoch, the Arctic’s “surface air temperatures have warmed at ⋙

Syria

Captagon: beyond Syrian regime downfall

Introduction The recent fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime , led by the rebel-jihadist group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (former Jabhat al Nusra) and others, seems to have reshaped Syria’ ⋙