Preventing and countering violent extremism: making it more effective

• Main Author: Snider, Joshua
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; Country and Region Studies; Singapore and Homeland Security
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169746
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

States in the West took the lead in preventing and countering violent extremism in the two decades since the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York by terrorists. But their agendas and interventions often came with a legitimacy gap at recipient levels, especially those conditional on the “development-security nexus”. In recent years, the Gulf states in the Middle East have started to punch above their weight in areas related to capacity building for preventing and countering violent extremism, and their robust humanitarian and development policy agendas can be tweaked further to strengthen intra-regional cooperation in tackling this threat.