The Africa Security Forum is the open activity of the Think Tank Atlantis. The vocation of our Think Tank and its Forum is to be an incubator of ideas to be shared between experts, this is the role of the Think Tank, and to be shared with representatives of the countries of the Continent for the Forum. The purpose of these two exercises is to be able to offer decision-makers possible responses to the new security issues that are sweeping our Continent.
In this spirit, the latest edition of the Africa Security Forum in Casablanca brought together more than two hundred (200) decision-makers from the public and private sectors, representatives of sovereign ministries or major companies from more than thirty (30) countries of the Continent. Speakers, anti-terrorist judges, eminent economists, international experts in the fields concerned, followed one another for three half days, on the themes of border security, illegal financial flows and digital identity.
The Africa Security Forum 2017, which will be held in Casablanca from October 8 to 10, 2017, wants to broaden its audience by opening its meetings to more than thirty (30) African countries and three hundred (300) personalities. Always resolutely turned towards the new issues that agitate our Continent, we have chosen themes whose avenues for resolution, on our scale, do not seem to us to have been very well explored yet. We will therefore reflect on “Inter-African Cooperation against Terrorism, Radicalization and Transnational Crime”. Three periods of reflection will be proposed, articulated around the following themes:
- Terrorism and Cyberspace, new theater of radicalizations,
- The new challenges posed by migratory flows and transnational crime,
- Inter-African cooperation in the face of these concerns.
To accompany and argue our debates, we have called on recognized experts, mainly from the Continent or specialists in it, major officials from Regional and/or Sub-Regional Organizations on the Continent and representatives of International Organizations in charge of the themes offered.
PROGRAMME
Sunday, October 8, 2017
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.: Welcome Cocktail
Monday, October 9, 2017
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.: Welcome of participants
9:00 – 9:45: Opening session
09:45 – 10:00: Coffee Break
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Theme 1 – Terrorism and Cyberspace, new theater of radicalization
• A new space for radicalization
• Means of action and operations of criminal and terrorist organizations.
• A new theater of struggle for governments.
• For a regional architecture for securing critical infrastructures.
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Theme 2 – The new challenges posed by migratory flows and transnational crime
• Frontier functions
• Migration flows and transnational crime: causes and dynamics.
• Migrants, an opportunity for transit countries.
• Promote regional mechanisms for the management of border areas.
16:30 – 17:00 – Coffee break
17:00 – 19:00 – Theme 3 – Inter-African cooperation in the face of these concerns
• The African cooperation architecture: from the sub-region to the continent.
• Rethink cooperation in the face of the new security challenges of the Continent.
• Promote the establishment of integrated cooperation structures.
7:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.: Closing and summary
7:30 – 8:00 p.m.: Press Briefing
9:00 p.m.: Dinner
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – B to B: Meetings by appointment with the companies present
PHOTOS
EN VIDÉOS
