Edoardo Baldaro
Dr. Edoardo Baldaro is a FNRS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the REPI Institute of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Gerda Henkel Foundation. He is also an Associate Research Fellow at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy). From 2017 to 2020 he was a postdoctoral fellow in Politics and International Relations at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”.
Key ICCT Publications:
D’Amato, S., and Baldaro, E. Counter-Terrorism in the Sahel: Increased instability and political tensions. Perspective, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, 7 July 2022
Keywords: violent extremism, Sahel, IDPs, refugees, displacement, migration, counter-terrorism With the Sahel crisis entering its tenth year, the indiscriminate violence faced by local populations trapped between various al-Qaeda and Islamic State-affiliated organisations, other non-state armed groups, and counter-terrorism operations, is forcing ever-growing numbers of civilians to flee, resulting in over 2.8 million people being forcibly […]
This Perspective delves into the issue of in absentia prosecution (i.e. without the suspect being present) of individuals who travelled to Syria, analysing the law at the international and domestic level.
This perspective critically examines what type of leader al-Zawahiri has been and what type his eventual successor could be by highlighting five possible successor types.