France24: ‘Priority has been damage control, not getting to bottom of it’ – Interview with Yan St-Pierre on Sri Lanka

@noemie_bouhana @CommissionCE In order words, it attracts people willing to do deals with the devil, and we know how that turns out 3/3

@noemie_bouhana @CommissionCE this in turn boosts the NVEs environment by providing a larger platform and a legitimacy through a mainstreaming of their views, thereby disarming the extremism and acting as a catalyst both for NVE and VE 2/

@noemie_bouhana @CommissionCE Don't think you missed it but I would simply add that the increasing influence of NVE actors also becomes attractive for non-extremist actors, who see a way of increasing their own influence short-term by trying to co-opt parts of the rhetoric & tap into the support pool 1/

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#thread; @noemie_bouhana's comparative analysis on the nature of the relationship(s) between "violent and (so-called) non-violent extremism" - thought provoking:
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#Chad declares state of emergency for 3 months in Sila and Ouaddai regions where 50 people have died since August 9 in fighting between cattle herders and settled farmers. Military to be deployed. Security measures taking priority again. #Sahel https://t.co/3TAHTy6NFI