Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) is an essential aspect in today’s changing landscape, and as such, KFP seeks to integrate CVE best practices in all of its projects. KFP is of the opinion that education especially for girls and the less privilege is critical to the enthronement of peace in Borno as an educated and resilient people is less likely to resort to extremist actions. KFP is therefore dedicated to encouraging the linkages between peace building measures and CVE 6 practices. Furthermore KFP seeks to mitigate conflict in the northeast through religious tolerance, entrepreneurship and girl child education.

While our countering violent extremism objectives originally stem from the security and defense arena, the expanding scope of CVE efforts is increasingly touching the area of peace building and the international community has acknowledged the inexorable connection between the two. While CVE focuses on building resilience among populations vulnerable to radicalization, peace building in its broader agenda of conflict prevention also focuses on CVE, since violent extremism oftentimes is a driver for conflict and a hindrance for building sustainable peace in northern Nigeria.

While our countering violent extremism objectives originally stem from the security and defense arena, the expanding scope of CVE efforts is increasingly touching the area of peace building and the international community has acknowledged the inexorable connection between the two.

While our countering violent extremism objectives originally stem from the security and defense arena, the expanding scope of CVE efforts is increasingly touching the area of peace building and the international community has acknowledged the inexorable connection between the two. While CVE focuses on building resilience among populations vulnerable to radicalization, peace building in its broader agenda of conflict prevention also focuses on CVE, since violent extremism oftentimes is a driver for conflict and a hindrance for building sustainable peace in northern Nigeria. CVE in the context of its security efforts brings the conditions for effective peace building which in turn plays an important role for building the capacity of civil society.

At the moment KFP is constructively engaging local stakeholders in Borno to see how the community as a whole can take collective ownership of the peace building project by actively engaging every local in processes of conflict mitigation in Borno state.

KFP focuses on the aspects which build the resilience and capacity of civil society 8 and thus represents the point where peace building and CVE meet. We are convinced that our peace building experience is beneficial for our CVE work, since peace building practices help us to develop a more in-depth understanding of violent extremism, its causes in localized contexts, and helps us to develop tailored and sustainable approaches to counter violent extremism.