Confronting Violent Extremism in Kenya Debates, Ideas and Challenges

Summary

In the last 20 years, terrorism or violent extremism have become security realities, and national social challenges with increasing numbers of young people being recruited to Al-Shabaab and other terrorist group. In many parts of the country -- but more so in the coastal and northeastern regions -- violent extremism has also become a social problem for communities and families that have seen their young men and women embrace the extremist ideologies of groups like Al-Shabaab and even sign up as active members. For governments in East Africa and the Horn, terrorism is now a regional security question and a foreign policy priority

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