EAI is strengthening capacities of local organizations to build resilience to violent extremism and counter radicalization and recruitment efforts of armed groups in Mindanao.
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Philippines
EAI is a nimble organization that year-on-year scales our work and geographic reach.
In 2018, we expanded an innovative approach we designed to instigate peace and transform extremism by creating Alternative Messaging Hubs that close the gap filled by violent extremists with messaging that aims to empower and convey the strength of community members forwarding peaceful solutions. The approach was piloted in Nigeria and subsequently scaled, with adaptation, to Kenya and the Philippines.
The program design builds bridges between diverse stakeholders and is inclusive of all members of society by recognizing their innate agency and using a positive asset-based approach to strengthening the leadership and capacity of emerging peace ambassadors, specifically youth and women, through locally resonant programming, including tech camps, locally-driven media, hackathons, and peace fellowships.
Our goal is to launch projects in all of EAI’s Impact Areas and expand our presence throughout the islands of the Philippines.
Projects
EAI uses an integrated social and behavioral change-informed approach that taps into the basic education and local governance structures that focuses on Preventing Violent Extremism through Education (PVE-E).
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Communities and Schools Leading in the Fight against Terrorism (CS-LIFT) Project, Mindanao, Philippines
Research & Resources
In 2019, EAI completed a formative research that identified several recurring and intersecting themes relevant to countering violent extremism (CVE) efforts in Mindanao, Philippines.
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Responding to Violent Extremism through Peace, Media, and Technology: A Formative Research Report
The RAND Corporation has published a book evaluating EAI's Tech Camps and Peace Promotion Fellowship program in the Philippines
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Promoting Peace as the Antidote to Violent Extremism
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