35. 秘书长《防止暴力极端主义行动计划》将防止暴力极端主义的措施与发展联系起来，强调解决多个暴力极端主义驱动因素的手段之一是使得国家发展政策与可持续发展目标保持一致。实际上，越来越多由西方国家资助的援助、发展、建设和平和技术援助等工作，已日益成为这些国家安全和反恐议程的组成部分，严重损害了在当地执行任务的发展和人道主义行为体的公正性和中立性。挪用发展议程并使得发展议程与安全问题联系在一起是短视之举，从长远来看显然适得其反。这种战略之一79 旨在强调采用“包括发展在内的对外援助工具和方法，以减少特定的政治或社会经济因素，防止这些因素在可确定领域助长暴力极端主义的社区基础，或使特定人群面临暴力极端主义激进化和为暴力势力所招募的较高风险”，并联合“伙伴组织和多边机构，加强在关键国家提供教育和社会服务的方案，使这些国家具备解决暴力极端主义驱动因素的手段”。另一项80 战略表示，“外交政策通过在[若干]领域的参与，为解决暴力极端主义的根源和条件作出贡献。解决暴力极端主义的直接和结构性根源，需要在过渡和脆弱情况下以及在当前的冲突地区作出长期、可持续的承诺”。特别报告员强调，必须在这一关键政策领域进行反思。
35. The Secretary-General’s Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism links measures to prevent violent extremism with development, stressing that one means to address many of the drivers of violent extremism is to align national development policies with the Sustainable Development Goals. In practice, more and more of such work funded by Western States – aid, development, peacebuilding and technical assistance – has increasingly formed part of their security and counter-terrorism agendas, profoundly compromising the impartiality and neutrality of development and humanitarian actors on the ground. The co-opting and securitization of development agendas is short-sighted and distinctly counter-productive in the long-term. One such strategy79 highlights as strategic objectives employing “foreign assistance tools and approaches, including development, to reduce specific political or social and economic factors that contribute to community support for violent extremism in identifiable areas or put particular segments of populations at high risk of violent extremist radicalization and recruitment to violence” and working with “partner organizations and multilateral institutions to enhance programmes that provide educational and social services in key countries with tools to address drivers of violent extremism”. Another80 states that “foreign policy makes a contribution towards addressing the causes of and conditions for violent extremism through its foreign policy engagement in [several] areas. Tackling its direct and structural causes requires long-term, sustainable commitment in transitional and fragile contexts, as well as in current conflict zones”. The Special Rapporteur stresses the necessity to stocktake in this critical policy area.