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January, 2010 MSI Develops Guides on Development and Violent Extremism This past year, MSI developed two landmark works under contract with USAID, delving into the critical and timely topic of development aid and extremism. The first paper, a Guide to the Drivers of Violent Extremism, draws on the broad literature related to violent extremism in general and focuses heavily on factors associated with vulnerability to violent Islamist extremism. It finds 20 factors, which can loosely be divided into cultural, political and socio-economic factors to increase a society's vulnerability to violent extremism. The second piece, a companion piece, Development Assistance and Counter-Extremism, lays out an approach to assessing risk and examines the role of development assistance in general in preventing or mitigating violent Islamist extremism. This paper provides a menu of development assistance options related to each driver. |
