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Institute of Political Science Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE)

3 new PRD-ARES set up by Ispole members in September 2023

ispole | Louvain-la-Neuve

ispole
13 December 2024

 
ARES projects consist of collaborative research or training projects carried out in partnership with the Wallonia-Brussels Federation as part of its development cooperation policy.
 
Michel Liégeois, Fabienne Leloup and Min Reuchamps have all obtained funding for their projects in 2023. They will be implemented from September 2023.
 
Find out more below:
 
1. Research program on conflict, security, peace and development in Niger and the Sahel. Resilience and inclusiveness: rethinking action strategies based on local realities
  • Promotor: Michel Liégeois (ISPOLE-UCLouvain)
  • Co-promoters: Emmanuel Klimis (USLB), Christophe Wasinski (ULB)
  • Partners: Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Centre nigérien d'étude de stratégie et de sécurité, Sahel Research Center (University of Florida)
The research program aims to explore in a multidisciplinary way - political science, international relations and security and development anthropology - the conditions for implementing innovative security and development strategies co-constructed locally in an inclusive way. In so doing, it aims to create the conditions necessary for the local elaboration of these strategies, breaking with imported models of counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism.
 
2. Center Smart & Sustainable Cities : Digital governance for the Fès-Meknès Region (Morocco) in the light of Agenda 2030

 

  • Promotor: Min Reuchamps (ISPOLE-UCLouvain) 
  • Partners: Anthony SIMONOFSKI ( Université de Namur - UNamur), Olivier SERVAIS (Université catholique de Louvain- UCLouvain), Marie-Paule KESTEMONT (Université catholique de Louvain- UCLouvain) 
  • Local coordinator: Abdelkrim Marzouk (Al Akhawyn University)
  • Local partners: Abdelali IBRIZ - (Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah - USMBA), Maha GMIRA - (Université Euro Méditerranéenne de Fès - UEMF), Samir EL JAAFARI (Université Moulay Ismail -UMI), Driss KETTANI (Université Al Akhawyn)  

The project aims to help universities and stakeholders in the Fès-Meknès region develop and appropriate the approaches and tools needed to introduce digital technology into territorial governance. In this way, it aims to contribute to the transition towards a smart and sustainable territory, in line with theAgenda 2030's sustainable development targets .

3. The public security service in Burkina Faso. Communal coordination and territorialized governance

  • Promotors: Pre Fabienne Leloup (Ispole, UCLouvain), Prof Bouraïman Zongo, sociologist, Université Joseph Ki Zerbo (Burkina Faso)
  • Partners: Profs Zakaria Soré and Dimitri Balima (UJKZ), Dr Emmanuel Wathelet (IHECS), Benjamin Chemouni and Emmanuelle Piccoli (UCLouvain)

The aim of the project is to develop an analysis of community policing in Burkina Faso, and to propose a new method of policing.