Comparing Moussalaha strategies in North Africa: Algeria and Moroccan cases

 Instituto Cultura y Sociedad 

Online seminar "Comparing Moussalaha strategies in North Africa: Algeria and Moroccan cases (online)", organized by MYOUROPE, 'Public Discourse' group, Institute for Culture and Society. 

Speaker: Djallil  Lounnas (Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane)

Abstract: For the past 30 years, North Africa has been exposed to violent extremism with thousand of young people joining jihadi groups either at local level or as foreign fighters. For the past 2 decades and after resorting to almost exclusively repressive measures, Algeria first (1998) and then Morocco (2017) have put in place strategies called Moussalaha or reconciliation to deal with this phenomenon.  Focusing on the Security/Economic aspect, the Algerian strategy of national reconciliation have been applied successfully as it benefitted to 15000 jihadists with less than 200 relapses. Morocco's program for its part, essentially deradicalization, has been applied to 400 people with nearly zero relapse. The presentation aims at presenting those very different however extremely successful strategies and to see what lessons can be learned from them.

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