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EUROPEAN SUMMIT
ISLAMIST RADICALIZATION
AND TERRORIST THREAT
Sunday March 27, 2022
9:30 - 18:30 CET
E D I T O
On April 10 and 24, 2022, French people will go to the polls to elect the President of the Republic. The fight against radical Islamism and the endogenous terrorist threat are central in the debates on the eve of this great democratic moment.
In this context, ELNET has decided to organize a new edition of the "European Summit on Islamist Radicalization and the Terrorist Threat" on March 27th, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Toulouse and Montauban attacks. This fifth session of the Summit will bring to the forefront the issues at the heart of the presidential campaign and of the European debate.
While Islamism feeds communitarianism by testing the Republican heritage and French-style secularism, it is also a challenge for Europe, which must take the measure of the threat, embodied by the unconcealed entry of the Muslim Brotherhood into its institutions. The French presidency of the European Union can thus be an opportunity to mobilize member countries to wage the battle of ideas against Islamist obscurantism and to deepen one of its agenda items: terror funding. Islamism as the spearhead of antisemitism will also be analyzed, as well as France's commitment in the Sahel region, which has evolved in recent months with the adaptation of Operation Barkhane, following the expansion of the jihadist threat towards the Gulf of Guinea. Finally, the paradigm shift in the Middle East represented by the Abraham Accords will also be reviewed.
Islamist terrorism has reminded us in recent months of its undiminished capacity to cause harm, as the historic trial of the November 13, 2015 attacks continues. This is a major challenge for our national community, ordering us to mobilize energies to defend the values of freedom, equality and fraternity that we share.
SPEAKERS
SCHEDULE
9.50am
Welcoming remarks
Dr. Arié Bensemhoun, Chief Executive Officer, ELNET France
David Khalfa, Program Director, ELNET France
10am-11.30am
Secularism, Islamism and communitarianism: a challenge for the Republic
10am
Introduction
Jean-Michel Blanquer
10.10am
ROUNDTABLE
moderated by Christophe Barbier, editorial director, Franc-Tireur, editorial writer, BFM
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Abnousse Shalmani, Journalist and columnist, L’Express, i24news
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Me Richard Malka, Lawyer, scriptwriter and writer
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Djemila Benhabib, Journalist, writer and activist
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Iannis Roder, Historian
11.10am
Keynote speaker
Amine Elbahi, jurist from Roubaix, whistleblower
Interview conducted by Nadjet Cherigui, reporter, Le Figaro Magazine
11.20am
Conclusion
Jérôme Fourquet, Director of the “opinion and business strategies” department of the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP)
11.30am-11.40am
Coffee break
11.40am-12.35am
The Muslim Brotherhood: an Islamist Trojan horse at the heart of European institutions?
ROUNDTABLE
Moderated by Mélanie Déchalotte, freelance journalist, documentary filmmaker at France Culture
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Anne-Clémentine Larroque, Historian, analyst at the Ministry of Justice
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Lorenzo Vidino, islamologist, Director of the Extremism Program at George Washington University
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Amélie Myriam Chelly, Sociologist, Iranologist, associated fellow at CADIS EHESS-CNRS
12.35am - 12.45am
Follow the money: money laundering and terror funding
Marie-Christine Dupuis-Danon, Associate Fellow, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IDCHerzliya), former advisor at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
12.45am-2pm
Lunch
2pm-2.30pm
Islam, Islamism and terrorism: the great debate
Introduction
David Khalfa, Program Director, ELNET France
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Tareq Oubrou, Grand Imam of Bordeaux, theologian and essayist
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Zineb El Rhazoui, writer, journalist and feminist activist
Interview conducted by Michaël Darmon, journalist, i24news
2.30pm – 3.30pm
Islamism and Antisemitism in France and Europe
2.30pm
Opening
Christophe de Voogd, President of the Scientific Council, Foundation for Political Innovation
2.40pm
ROUNDTABLE
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Dr. Günther Jikeli, Associate Professor, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University
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Smaïn Laacher, Professor of Sociology at the University of Strasbourg
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Dr. Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine, Philosopher and historian
3.30pm-4pm
Changes in the terrorist threat: from global jihad to local jihad
CONVERSATION
interview conducted by Armelle Charrier, columnist for International Politics, France 24
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General (ret.) Serge Cholley, former Commander of Operation Chammal, in charge of the conduct of French operations against ISIS in Syria and Iraq
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Brig. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Nuriel, Deputy Commander of the Israeli Special OperationCommand, Fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), formerDirector of the Counterterrorism Bureau
4pm - 4.20pm
Coffee break
4.20pm-5.15pm
Jihadist contagion in Africa: which strategy for French counterterrorism?
4:20pm
ROUNDTABLE
moderated by Didier Lauras, defence, security and diplomacy correspondent, AFP
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Dr. Alain Antil, Director of the Sub-Saharan Africa Center, French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)
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Michael Shurkin, Director of Global Program, 14 North Strategies, former RandCorporation senior political scientist and former CIA analyst
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Dr. Bakary Sambe, Regional Director of the Timbuktu Institute, African Center for Peace Studies
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Dr. Niagalé Bagayoko, President of the African Security Sector Network (ASSN)
5pm
Keynote speaker
Général Didier Castres, former head of the Center for Planning and Conduct of Operations (CPCO) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (EMA) in Afghanistan, Libya and West Africa
Interview conducted by Pascal Airault, journalist, L'Opinion
5.15pm-5.35pm
EU-Israel cooperation in the fight against terrorism
Dr. Christiane Höhn, Principal Advisor to the European Counter-Terrorism Coordinator
Talya Lankri, Head of the Counter-Terrorism Department, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Interview conducted by Harold Hyman, Columnist for Political Affairs
5.35pm-5.55pm
From upheavals in the Mediterranean to Islamist separatism
Gilles Kepel, Professor at Paris University, Director of the Middle East-Mediterranean Chair at the École Normale Supérieure
Interview conducted by Jean-Philippe Moinet, Director of La Revue civique, Political Scientist
5.55pm-6.30pm
Against Islamism and terrorism: is a new governance possible?
5.55pm
CONCLUSION
Manuel Valls, former French Prime Minister
6.10pm
Closing remarks
Dr. Arié Bensemhoun, Chief Executive Officer, ELNET France
PARTNERS
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