What is the role of the EU in the fields of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) in the Sahel? Abdoul Wahab Cissé (ARGA) presented the latest PREVEX ‘Policy Brief summarizing the EU and other stakeholders’ prevention strategy towards violent extremism in the Maghreb and the Sahel’, suggesting that the securitization narrative, with its emphasis on assistance that builds local capacities to repress violent extremism, disrupt its networks, and neutralize militants, is by far the predominant frame through which P/CVE initiatives are conceived in the Sahel.