The IGAD Center of Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (ICEPCVE) is a regional platform for training, coordination and connectivity, knowledge sharing, community & civil society organization engagement, strategic communication and research on preventing/countering violent

extremism Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views". The term is primarily used in a political or religious sense to refer to an ideology that is considered (by the speaker or by some implied share ...

for government and civil society actors in the Eastern and

Horn of Africa The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.Robert Stock, ''Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation'', (The Guilford Press; 2004), ...

region.

Formation

ICEPCVE was established in 2016 and officially inaugurated in May 2018.

Mandate

ICEPCVE's mandate as a regional coordinating body on P/CVE includes expediting partnerships between governments, non-governmental organizations and sub-national actors as well as capturing numerous locally-led efforts to build community resilience against violent extremism in the Horn of Africa and the East African region.

Achievements

References

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