Preventing violent extremism – Strengthening local community resilience As the EU Horizon 2020-funded projects PAVE and PREVEX are coming to a close, researchers from both projects will present key findings, and discuss the joint policy recommendations on the prevention...
Following the adoption of the European Union’s counterterrorism strategy, the fight against violent extremism has become one of the key objectives of the EU’s external action, in particular in the area of its neighbourhood. But what is the European...
The Nordic Africa Institute has published an article by Mattias Sköld, where Research Professor Morten Bøås from the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) comments on the post-election results in Mali. For the full text, please visit the Nordic...
By Henriette Ullavik Erstad/NUPI Why are some communities more likely to experience violent extremism than others? This is one of the core questions that PREVEX will address. This week the project participants gathered at CEPS in Brussels for the...
Al Jazeera reports that the opposition leader was kidnapped while campaigning in Niafunke, central Mali, probably by an armed group that belongs to the Islamist insurgency Katiba Macina. This is yet another rejoinder of how much the situation in...
