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Alain Ruffion was born in Switzerland, which suggests his vocation for peace. However, he inherited French passions for social justice and took a liking to cross socio-cultural borders after spending long periods in North Africa as well as throughout Europe (ERASMUS, YIEP, RAN, SALTO, BOUNCE UP programs), in the United States (PERMA, BOUNCE UP programs), in the United States (PERMA, VIA programs) and in Australia (Geelong Grammar Schools, Positive Education Institute), each time to promote intercultural understanding and communication, the fight against racism and all forms of extremism.
He is a psychoanalyst and has a degree in political science. He contributed to the founding of several national NGOs: UNIS-CITE, FRANCEMÉDIATION and ERANOS INSTITUTE. After experiencing the 2016 Promenade des Anglais attack in Nice, France (86 dead, 318 injured), he worked with hundreds of young people and families to end various forms of radicalization. It has trained thousands of professionals and parents in the detection, understanding and prevention of extremism and radicalization processes.
Her thesis in the field of education and psychology synthesizes international work in Northern Europe, the United States, Australia and the MENA region: “Positive psychology and education: contributions to better prevention of violent radicalization - Lessons for 2030 in education”. A part of his
research was devoted to carrying out a diagnosis on the process of radicalization of 500 young French people with the famous French hospital La Salpetrière in Paris for the European consortium Practices Project (Objective H2020).
He is the author of four books on the prevention of radicalization and positive education, and is responsible for a specific existential psychology program with two professors from the University of East London and Ruskin University. As a professor of psychopathology and positive psychology at Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra, he works on the establishment of listening and mental health units in major Moroccan universities and psychosocial resilience programs with schools and NGOs in Morocco and France.