Policies that reduce poverty, inequality and socioeconomic insecurity lower the incentive to engage in or tolerate terrorism.
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Although Niger’s quest for entrenching democracy is a good development, poverty and insecurity are obstacles.
Leaders’ efforts to end conflict have been ineffective. Working through regional economic communities might be part of a better approach.
If the US, simply focuses on trying to hunt down jihadist leaders in Niger it will be missing an opportunity to address the underlying causes of violence in the region.
The hostage situation at a hotel in the Malian capital Bamako comes after months of sporadic violence.
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Professor of Politics, University of Birmingham
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Maître de conférences sur les conflits internationaux, University of Kent
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Doctoral candidate in African History, Columbia University
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Assistant Professor of Homeland Security, DeSales University
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Assistant Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Lecturer, American University
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Associate professor in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University
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Director & SARChI Research Chair: Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, University of Pretoria