Speaking on the occasion, the president of the CNDH, Driss El Yazami was pleased with the quality and richness of the exchanges that have characterized the works of the symposium, with the participation of eminent scientists and experts from different countries, noting that this meeting is part of an ongoing process of implemented recommendations of the Equity and Reconciliation in terms of archive, history and memory.
He said in this connection that "considerable effort has been made in Morocco in the preservation of memory," citing, among other things, the publication of several stories and one hundred books, the creation of the institution " Archives of Morocco ", the launch of the first inventory of all archives of Morocco, the creation of a Master in Contemporary History at the University Mohamed V-Agdal Rabat in addition to the proposed establishment of a Moroccan Institute of History of present time.
Mr. El Yazami noted that the international conference of Dakhla allowed to explore new avenues of research on the history of the Sahara region, highlighting the importance of projects to create a museum in Dakhla and a center of research and studies in the Sahrawi Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Rabat (University Mohammed V-Agdal).
The closing session of this two-day scientific event took place in the presence of the director of the agency for the Promotion and Development of the Southern Provinces, Ahmed Hajji, the Wali of the of Oued-Eddahab-Lagouira region, Hamid Chabar.
This two-day meeting aims to develop an inventory of historical research on the Sahara and to explore new avenues of research.
Initiated in partnership with the Agency for the Economic and Social Promotion and Development of the southern provinces, the Region and the province of Oued-Eddahab Lagouira, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Rabat (University Mohammed V-Agdal) and Phosphates Sherifian Office, this international symposium was attended by an audience of historians, sociologists, anthropologists, university professors and experts from Morocco and nine other foreign countries (France, Spain , Portugal, Mexico, USA, Qatar, Senegal, Mauritania and Niger).
The work of this meeting was marked by a series of papers focused on the inventory of historical research on the Sahara, colonial archives (Spain û France), current time, oral history, tangible and intangible heritage in the Sahara, methods and processes for identification, inventory and heritage preservation, preservation of memory, heritage and cultural policies and national and international process of musealization of intangible heritage.
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