Professor Mohamedou leaves behind a rich and highly original body of academic and critical work. A brilliant intellectual, he pushed the boundaries of research on key issues such as terrorism, political violence, new forms of conflict, state-building, democratic transitions, and the history of racism. His work earned him the Collège de France Recognition Award in 2017 and the Global South Distinguished Award from the International Studies Association in 2021.
The prize aims to distinguish an excellent Master’s thesis that falls within the thematic range of War and Peace from a historical and/or a political science perspective. The thesis should relate to one or several of Professor Mohamedou’s areas of research:
- State-building processes in the Global South;
- Political violence before, beneath, beyond, and after the state (hinting to terrorism, self-determination, non-state armed groups, region open);
- Comparative histories of democracies and democratic regimes (region open);
- Longue durée histories of discriminations in comparative perspective (racism);
- Diplomacy and new diplomacies.
The International History and Politics Department (IHP) and the Head of the Master in International and Development Studies (MINT) will select the eligible Master’s theses. The prize will then be awarded to the best Master’s Thesis by a jury composed of the Head of the IHP Department, another professor from the Department, and the Head of the Conflict, Peace and Security specialisation from the MINT programme. The prize will be awarded publicly during the graduation ceremony. With the student's agreement, the thesis will be published electronically by the Institute.