Laurence Thieux

Instituto de Estudios sobre Conflictos y Acción Humanitaria
Institute of Studies on Conflicts and Humanitarian Action
(IECAH), Madrid, SPAIN

 

Laurence Thieux joined the Institute of Studies in Conflicts and Humanitarian Action (IECAH) in May 2003, as a pre-doc researcher of the ESDP Democracy Project.

Laurence is 34 years old and is a French national. After graduating from Complutense University in Madrid, in 1993, with a BA in Journalism, she followed a specialisation in Mediterranean and Arabic Country Studies. She holds a PhD in Philosophy and Humanities, with a specialisation in Arabic Studies, and her thesis was on "The Algerian civil war and its repercussions on the foreign policies of France and the United States (1991-1999), submitted for degree in December 2002. She's a native speaker of French, and is proficient in Spanish and in English with basic command in reading and oral comprehension of Arabic.

Laurence has published several articles about Algeria and about the French and US foreign policy with Islam, in a review of the Peace Research Centre (CIP, Madrid): "Papeles de Cuestiones Internacionales". In the context of the project "Bridging the Accountability Gap in EU Defence and Security", she will focus her research on the new developments in the field of conflict prevention and complex emergencies in the European Union.

 
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