Background Paper: West, East, South and Central Africa Civil Society Consultation for the Global Study on the Impact of Counter-Terrorism Measures on Civil Society and Civic Space
February 26, 2024
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Numerous Civil society organisations (CSOs) working in Kenya are addressing a range of socio-economic and political problems that contribute to violent extremism. There is substantial evidence that structural violence in the form of injustice, inequity, discrimination, and oppression; as well as direct violence in the form of abuse by state security services, foreign invasions, and other forms of state-sanctioned or -perpetrated physical violence can serve as structural or proximate drivers of escalating political violence and conflict.

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