The Elcano Forum on Global Terrorism, organised by the Elcano Royal Institute with the cooperation of the Embassy of the United States of America in Spain and Casa Árabe, gathers every year in Madrid the leading Spanish and international academics, experts and professionals in the field to analyse over the course of two days the developments and trends in international Jihadist terrorism. The forum’s value lies in the opportunity it provides to share different views on the phenomenon in order to broaden the field of analysis with a view to designing the appropriate responses to such a serious threat to democratic societies.
In its 2nd edition, the Elcano Forum reviewed the recent transformations undergone by global terrorism. The latest developments in international Jihadism, dominated by the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) –currently the self-styled Islamic State (IS)– as an alternative and rival nucleus, and the establishment of the Caliphate in Iraqi territory last June, make it necessary to reflect not only about the changes in the phenomenon itself but also to its implications for the Western Mediterranean. Thus, the forum will analyse both the threat these changes pose for the various countries in the Maghreb-Sahel region and in Europe, given their renewed capacity for mobilisation, and the strategies, policies and measures adopted to counter it.
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