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The Clerics Forging Peace in the Sahel

Into Africa

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The Challenges and Incentives of Violence Extremism

Sheikh: Some young people are recruited by force. A community is attacked, young men are arrested and forced to be part of the group. Then we have also cases where the extremists extend friendly hands to the community people even before they attack. It's not that the youth like to be violent or to be radicalized to think arms against their own people. Nobody do so because they think that if they don't do that, living in object poverty, it itself a kind of war.

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