(AGENPARL) – Tue 18 November 2025 19 novembre 2025
Ore 9:30
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Aula 3
Final Research-Policy Forum
REJOWA Project: Resilience to the
Expansion of Jihadist Organizations
in West Africa
Introductory Session
9:30 – Arrival and registration of participants
9:40 – Opening Remarks and Plan of the Day, Luca Raineri (SSSA)
9:50 – Institutional Greetings
Federico Bernardi, Deputy Head of Western and Central Africa Division Italian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
10:00 – Keynote speech
Mechanisms of expansion and resilience of African Jihadism
Stig Jarle Hansen (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
11:00 – Coffee Break
Panel
11:30 – A multidimensional approach to expansion: the spatiality and mobility
of jihadi actors in Sikasso, southern Mali, Marte Belde (University of Ghent)
12:00 – The Spillover of Violent Extremism to Coastal West Africa – Challenging
the Conventional Narrative, Sampson Kwarkye (Institute of Security Studies
West Africa – online)
12:30 – Climate change, displacement and security: Insights from econometric
analysis across fragile regions, Marina Mastrorillo (Alliance Bioversity & CAT)
Chair: Laura Berlingozzi (SSSA)
13:00 – Lunch
Presentation of the research results
14:30 – Resilience to the expansion of jihadist organizations in Ghana
Ibrahim Mohammed Gadafi (University of Tamale) Martha Populin (SSSA)
15:00 – Climate change and food security as drivers of instability?
Stefania Sellitti and Leonardo Caproni (SSSA)
15:30 – Resilience to the expansion of jihadist organizations in West Africa
Mariachiara Boldrini and Luca Raineri (SSSA)
New perspectives presentation
16:00 – The way ahead: introducing ESATRE and AQUABEHER, Leonardo
Caproni (SSSA)
Conclusion
16:30 – Closing Remarks and Greetings
17:00 – Cocktail
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