PREVEX recently published a policy brief on the strategies employed by external stakeholders such as the EU in the Balkans. Balkan Insight has picked up on the lessons learned in the brief and have written a very interesting analysis on counter-terrorism policy comparing Bosnia with other Western Balkan countries. The author argues that Bosnia lags behind the rest of the Western Balkans in terms of its strategy on countering terrorism, particularly how to handle fighters returning from foreign wars.
Ethnically-motivated extremism should be listed by both Bosnia and Serbia as one of the biggest terrorist concerns, given that “in both countries there are extremist ideologies and regional nationalistic groups which are potential sources of terrorism,” Prevex said.
Nermina Kuloglija – Balkan Insight
Read the article by Balkan Insight and have a look at our policy briefs on preventing violent extremism in the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa and the Sahel.
