Dr. Maha Ghazi is a Moroccan-Egyptian scholar holding a PhD in Political and International Studies. She is a Senior Human Rights Officer at the National Human Rights Council of the Kingdom of Morocco (CNDH), an Affiliated Expert with the National Observatory of Criminality – Ministry of Justice in Morocco, and part of the 2025 Working Group on Youth Radicalization by the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT).
Dr Ghazi is an international expert in managing terrorist offenders within correctional institutions. With over 8 years of specialized field-research inside Super-Max prisons, her PhD focused on disengagement, de-radicalization, rehabilitation, and reintegration. She has worked and collaborated with more than 30 organizations in 16 countries, including serving as a Subject Matter Expert with esteemed international institutions such as the NATO Strategic Direction–South Hub, the OSCE, the African Union, the Islamic Military Counter-Terrorism Coalition, the Small Arms Survey, USAID, and ICESCO. Her training experience includes working with regional law enforcement and security agencies, notably as an expert with UNOCT (The Arab Interior Ministers Council-Tunisia) and UNODC (Asia-Pacific region). She also led the national design and evaluation framework for correctional and reintegration indicators in Saudi Arabia.
Dr Ghazi is an alumna of several prestigious international programs for professionals and practitioners, through which she gained field experiences within security and social institutions across various countries. This includes participation in the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), the OSCE–UNODA Peace and Security Scholarship, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)/Manama Dialogue, The Hague Academy for Local Governance, and the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) in Australia.
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Geographic focus:
- Algeria
- Bahrain
- Egypt
- Iraq
- Kuwait
- Libya
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Syria
- Tunisia
- United Arab Emirates
- Western Sahara
Subject expertise:
- Armed conflict (causes, dynamics, prevention)
- Armed groups
- Children and DDR
- Climate security, natural resources and DDR
- Community violence reduction
- DDR planning
- DDR-related tools
- Demobilization and reinsertion
- Disabilities and DDR
- International intervention
- Legal and normative frameworks for DDR
- Mental health and psychosocial support in DDR
- Military roles and responsibilities
- National and local ownership
- Organized crime and DDR
- Police roles and responsibilities
- Political context of DDR
- Prevention of (re-)recruitment/recidivism
- Regional and subregional actors in DDR
- Reintegration
- Rule of law, transitional justice and DDR
- Security sector reform and DDR
- Terrorism, violent extremism and DDR
- The United Nations and DDR
- Women, gender and DDR
- Youth and DDR
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