Ahlam Chemlali is program manager at DIGNITY and manager of a project on prevention of violence in the medina of Tunis. She has managed projects and conducted more than 70 field missions across Sub-Saharan Africa, the MENA region and Asia, including Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan and Palestine. She has specialized expertise in torture prevention, urban warfare, security and migration. Her work includes several articles and reports on urban violence, security and migration as well as leading and implementing cross-national research studies on violence prevention.
Since the intensive campaign of civil resistance that culminated in the January 2011 ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali after 24 years in power, Tunisia has undergone a political transition that has produced a new constitution, unharnessed civil society, and delivered much-needed political and economic reforms. Although the transition process has also included security sector reform (SSR), Tunisians remain insecure — subjected to a steady, unabated diet of everyday violence.
