Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) got an important boost from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon but will need another with the likelihood of a less supportive government in Washington.That view was expressed at an IPI policy forum by Eric Rosand, Director of the Prevention Project: Organizing Against Violent Extremism, and a senior counterterrorism official at the US State […]
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Of the eleven countries most affected by terrorism globally, seven currently host UN peace operations. In countries affected by terrorism and violent extremism, peace operations will increasingly be called upon to adapt their approaches without compromising UN doctrine. But to date, there has been little exploration of the broader political and practical challenges, opportunities, and […]
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This was a broad conclusion of a group of regional specialists speaking in a panel discussion at IPI on September 27th on investing in peace and preventing violent extremism in West Africa and the Sahel. The forum was a follow-up to a meeting on the same subject in June in Dakar.The panelists agreed as a […]
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Policies to combat terrorism cannot take an exclusively security-based focus, experts at a recent IPI conference agreed. This is the approach efforts made to solve the problem of violent extremism have taken for nearly a decade, and as continued violence illustrates, these policies have been insufficient.Recognizing that violent extremism manifests itself differently in different contexts, 60 […]
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Religious and faith leaders launched on May 4th an appeal to all educational and cultural institutions to promote the values of peace, dialogue, dignity, and diversity, continuing the tradition set in July 2015 when IPI hosted the first of these dialogues.In a meeting attended by H.E. Shaikh Abdullah Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa, Undersecretary of Bahrain’s […]
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The transactional nature of the relationship between Chad's President Deby and the Western powers—regional security in exchange for…
With DRC President Kabila becoming increasingly emboldened in his actions to extend his political longevity, it would be difficult to believe that travel and financial embargoes alone…
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