Resilience, Peacebuilding, and Preventing Violent Extremism : A Complex Systems Perspective on Sustaining Peace / edited by Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, and Ako Muto.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Linking Resilience, Peacebuilding, and Preventing Violent Extremism -- 2. Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism by Strengthening Social Cohesion and Resilience: An Adaptive Peacebuilding Approach -- 3. Building Resilience Amid Fear: From State to Community-Embedded Prevention in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique -- 4. Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in the Complex Context of the Syrian Conflict -- 5. Reconciliation and Social Cohesion in the Prevention of Violent Extremism in Complex Systems -- 6. Intersecting Gender in Community Resilience to Violent Extremism: Local Actors' Perspectives in Niger -- 7. "When There Are Many Saying the Same Thing That I Am Saying, I Feel Less Afraid to Speak Up": Emotions, Resilience, and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka -- 8. The Role of Development Agencies in Fostering Resilience to Violent Extremism: The Case of Mindanao, the Philippines -- 9. Climate Change, Environmental Peacebuilding, and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism -- 10. Conclusion: Preventing Violent Extremism Requires Communityorientated, Holistic, Comprehensive and Adaptive Solutions -- Index.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the complex drivers of violent extremism, along with recommendations for strengthening social and institutional resilience through peacebuilding and development efforts. By presenting a theoretical and empirical argument that places the emphasis on social cohesion, resilience, and adaptive peacebuilding, this book challenges the conventional security-led approach to countering violent extremism. Through a range of case studies from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, including Syria, Iraq, Mozambique, Niger, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines, it explores the complex dynamics of violent extremism and the ways in which it can be prevented and countered. Drawing on complexity theory and adaptive peacebuilding, the volume provides insights into how complex social systems adapt and respond to stress, and how peacebuilders can support societies in uncertain, volatile, and unpredictable contexts by improving their resilience and their adaptive capacity to sustain peace. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, security studies and countering violent extremism, and professional practitioners

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