People

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany – Morocco

Biography

Mimoun is a German-Moroccan peace advocate. During his studies, he founded and is now managing director of 180 Grad Wende, a widely recognised NGO in the field of radicalization prevention. He is an award winning advocate on integration and radicalization prevention and serves as a counselor to governmental bodies and civil society. Mimoun initiated a jail project to build bridges between young convicts and the Hikmah-Concept to provide alternative messages to hate speech. He is a Young Leader at the Kofi Annan Foundation’s program extremelytogether.

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“We need leaders who oppose hate speech & advocate togetherness.”

Mimoun Berrissoun