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To build peace we have to ask why people go to war

New findings from Mali underline the failure of hard security approaches to conflict-resolution.

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Members of a Senegalese Formed Police Unit (FPU) of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) participate in training on maintaining and restoring public order at the Police Academy in Bamako. Credit: Flickr/UN Mission in Mali. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

A recent spate of extremist attacks in Mali has once again underlined the need to rethink the hard security approach that dominates the response to terrorism in the Sahel.