Nesrine Jamoud

Fellowship

Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs

Period of the Fellowship

2009

Project title

Social Conflicts, religious violence and regional irregular migration in West and North Africa

Expertise

Maghreb, West Africa, Counter Terrorism, Migration, Crisis Prevention

Organization

UNDP, IOM

Short biography

Nesrine Jamoud, born in 1981, studied Islamic Studies in Berlin, Leiden, Damaskus and Rabat. Her area of research contains modern history of Morocco, processes of democratization in the Maghreb and sub-Saharan migration to the Maghreb and to the EU. During her Mercator year she focused on the project Social Conflicts, religious violence and regional irregular migration in West and North Africa. For the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) she evaluated projects of faith based organizations in the fields of conflict prevention and youth work. These NGOs play a key role in the conflict mitigation among the rural population. Apart from writing her dissertation in the field of terrorism research Nesrine Jamoud now works for the Institute for Security Policy of the University Kiel, and since 2012 also as an adviser for preventing and countering terrorism in Nigeria at the EU Commission (DEVCO).