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Daesh: The future of the Jihadist threat
February 05, 20187:30 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:30 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
Casa Árabe and the publishing firm Los Libros de la Catarata present
this work by Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde, who will be attending along with
journalist Ramón Lobo.
The event will be presented by Pedro Martínez-Avial, the General Director of Casa Árabe.
Daesh has demonstrated it has the ability to strike hard at whatever time it wishes and in any place it chooses. Not only in Iraq and Syria, where —lest we forget— most of its victims are located, but also in the West. The intention behind this essay is to contribute to learning more about Daesh, from its beginnings as a local branch of Al-Qaeda to the proclamation of the horrific “Islamic State” in 2014, with a special emphasis on analyzing its rapid loss of territory and the recent dismantling of its pseudo-Caliphate.
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde is a co-director of the Institute of Studies on Conflicts and Humanitarian Action (IECAH). A specialist in security-related topics, the building of peace and conflict prevention, with a special emphasis on the Arab and Muslim world, he frequently collaborates with various media. He is a professor at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He is also a consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the field of peace building and the prevention of violent conflicts.
Ramón Lobo worked from 1992 through 2012 as a writer for the International section of El País, covering various conflicts: Croatia, Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Chechnya, Iraq, Lebanon, Argentina, Haiti, Rwanda, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Congo, Zimbabwe, Namibia and the Philippines. In 2001, he was awarded the Eighteenth Cirilo Rodríguez Prize for Journalism, given by the Segovia Press Association. He was also the director of a summer course titled “Awkward Witnesses: Reporters in a conflict zone” at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
Daesh has demonstrated it has the ability to strike hard at whatever time it wishes and in any place it chooses. Not only in Iraq and Syria, where —lest we forget— most of its victims are located, but also in the West. The intention behind this essay is to contribute to learning more about Daesh, from its beginnings as a local branch of Al-Qaeda to the proclamation of the horrific “Islamic State” in 2014, with a special emphasis on analyzing its rapid loss of territory and the recent dismantling of its pseudo-Caliphate.
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde is a co-director of the Institute of Studies on Conflicts and Humanitarian Action (IECAH). A specialist in security-related topics, the building of peace and conflict prevention, with a special emphasis on the Arab and Muslim world, he frequently collaborates with various media. He is a professor at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He is also a consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the field of peace building and the prevention of violent conflicts.
Ramón Lobo worked from 1992 through 2012 as a writer for the International section of El País, covering various conflicts: Croatia, Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Chechnya, Iraq, Lebanon, Argentina, Haiti, Rwanda, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Congo, Zimbabwe, Namibia and the Philippines. In 2001, he was awarded the Eighteenth Cirilo Rodríguez Prize for Journalism, given by the Segovia Press Association. He was also the director of a summer course titled “Awkward Witnesses: Reporters in a conflict zone” at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
