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Preventing Violent Extremism through Peacebuilding: Current Perspectives from the Field

The fields of peacebuilding and development are increasingly contending with both the phenomenon of violent extremism and the question of how to engage with the practical and policy implications of efforts to prevent it (preventing violent extremism: PVE). The 2017 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development took on this question with a session devoted to ‘Preventing Violent Extremism through Peacebuilding’ to consider perspectives from the field on what works, and what doesn’t. Among the array of responses to the phenomenon of violent extremism, development and peacebuilding actors have tended to stress interventions that focus on mitigating the root causes, over the traditional focus of countering violent extremism (CVE) measures focused on interrupting the process of radicalisation and recruitment and engaging communities in the facilitation of stateled security efforts. The session, which reflected on evidence and programmes designed to address these ‘push factors’, was structured as a roundtable discussion and jointly led by the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Oslo Governance Centre with the participation of researchers, grassroots practitioners, and representatives of international non-governmental peacebuilding organisations, multilaterals and governments.