{"id":12159,"date":"2015-11-20T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/war-at-the-gates-containing-the-conflicts-of-the-mediterranean\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:13:41","slug":"war-at-the-gates-containing-the-conflicts-of-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/war-at-the-gates-containing-the-conflicts-of-the-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"War at the gates: Containing the conflicts of the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NRCC14_ITA_Parliament_1_1.jpg\" alt=\"NRCC-14 at the Italian House of Representatives\" \/><figcaption>NRCC-14 at the Italian House of Representatives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">On Thursday 19 November 2015, NATO Regional Cooperation Course-14, led by NDC Middle East Faculty Director Col Giuseppe Morabito, participated in a conference entitled \u201cWar at the Gates\u201d held at Palazzo Montecitorio &#8211; the Italian Parliament. The conference, which brought together distinguished guests and participants, was opened by Dr Tiberio GRAZIANI and  Stefano DAMBRUOSO, MP and Commissioner of the Italian House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">The first panel dealt with the \u201cLibyan and Syrian civil wars and the threat of destabilization in North Africa and the Near East\u201d. The programme included lectures by a number of prominent speakers: Admiral Mario Rino ME (ITA N), Dr Azzurra MERINGOLO (IAI, International Affairs Institute), H.E. Ambassador Claudio PACIFICO (CSD) and Biancamaria SCARCIA AMORETTI, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Rome \u201cLa Sapienza\u201d. The ensuing discussion was moderated by Gabriella LEPRE, a journalist at RAI (Italian broadcasting company), and looked at how to prevent destabilization from Libya and Syria from affecting the whole region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">\u201cISIS and AL Qaeda: the threat of international terrorism in Europe\u201d was the topic of the second panel. A number of distinguished speakers attended the conference, including  Stefano DAMBRUOSO, General Goffredo MENCAGLI (Carabinieri), Sen Marco MINNITI, Dr Vittorfranco PISANO (Head of Department at the International University of Social Sciences, UNINTESS) and Prof Ranieri RAZZANTE (Director of Observatory on Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing, ORFT at the B.Visentini Foundation of the Luiss University of Rome). All panels were followed by interesting Q&#038;A sessions. One of the priorities discussed was the importance of cultural values as a good starting point to face the threat of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">In his concluding remarks, Col Morabito expressed the NDC\u2019s appreciation at being invited to participate in such an interesting conference at such a critical time and underlined the relevance of cooperation with Alliance partner countries from the Mediterranean region.<\/p>\n<p><em>NDC Public Affairs Office<br \/>(Prepared by Ms Giselle Fernandez, ITA C)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRCC-14 at the Italian House of Representatives On Thursday 19 November 2015, NATO Regional Cooperation Course-14, led by<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"post_badge":[],"class_list":["post-12159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"NDC","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/author\/admin_3rwqf6tj\/"},"modified_by":null,"author_meta":{"display_name":"NDC","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/author\/admin_3rwqf6tj\/"},"featured_img":null,"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","trp-custom-language-flag":"","morenews-featured":"","morenews-large":"","morenews-medium":""},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":0,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]}},"relative_dates":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 11 ans il y a","modified":"Mis \u00e0 jour 6 mois il y a"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 le novembre 20, 2015","modified":"Mise \u00e0 jour le janvier 15, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 le novembre 20, 2015 14:56","modified":"Mise \u00e0 jour le janvier 15, 2026 09:13"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12159"},{"taxonomy":"post_badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_badge?post=12159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}