Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hosts the Countering-Violent Extremist Organizations (CVEO) Chiefs of Defense Conference at Fort. Lesley J. McNair, Oct. 16, 2016. Forty three nations and seven U.S. Combatant Commands were represented at the conference. (DoD photo by U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann)

Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

8:00 am - 8:50 am

Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room

Michael Davidson, Shannon Martinez, Jesse Morton

Moderator: Graeme Wood

Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Dan Bayer

Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

The Neturei Karta are utter freaks! Their claim that there is religious basis to reject Zionism &/or Israel is pure crap! Also, they go beyond that by embracing and collaborating with violent, anti-Israel groups, and spreading lies and hatred toward Israel across the globe, which immediately disqualifies them from any reasonable consideration. In addition, some of them *live* in Israel - *they* need to get out! They are not Jews - they're disturbed lunatics.

Jewish extremists regularly visit Palestinian graveyards like this one in Haifa and oftentimes spray paint lewd, incendiary threats against Arabs or, as in the case of this grave, simply break it into pieces with sledgehammers. This particular graveyard has a particular interest amongst Israelis because it is the yard where the famous anti-colonial, anti-imperialist revolutionary Izz-deen al-Qassam is buried. Unfortunately, in their quest at finding Qassam's grave, these Jewish vandals never bother to read the inscriptions on the gravestones and have made a habit of destroying and desecrating ALL the stones in the cemetary (Qassam's as well as others).

Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

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U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hosts the Countering - Violent Extremist Organizations (C-VEO) Chiefs of Defense Conference at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Oct. 17, 2016. Forty-three nations and seven U.S. Combatant Commands were represented at the conference. (DoD Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann)

I guess he doesn't want the world to stop guzzling gas or funding extremists of a certain bent?

Data: 28.10.2015

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Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

Protests outside Trump Tower on 8/13/17 after the "alt-right" and right-wing extremist rallies in Charlottesville, VA, where a protestor was killed.

Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

Right-wing extremist group ''Sauvons Calais''

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hosts the Countering-Violent Extremist Organizations (CVEO) Chiefs of Defense Conference at Fort. Lesley J. McNair, Oct. 16, 2016. Forty three nations and seven U.S. Combatant Commands were represented at the conference. (DoD photo by U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann)

Maranata (Eller okända kristna extremister av annat slag)

8:00 am - 8:50 am

Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room

Michael Davidson, Shannon Martinez, Jesse Morton

Moderator: Graeme Wood

Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Dan Bayer

Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

Water scarcity and conflict over freshwater resources have contributed to an “arc of instability” stretching from West Africa through the Maghreb and across the Mediterranean to the Middle East. Rural livelihoods are collapsing, displacing many, and violent extremist organizations like Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, and ISIS are gaining footholds in areas where governance is weak. As local communities demand better provisioning of water, insurgent groups, building on discontent, use water to finance their operations and as a weapon of war.

Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/west-africa-to-the-middle-east...

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hosts the Countering-Violent Extremist Organizations (CVEO) Chiefs of Defense Conference at Fort. Lesley J. McNair, Oct. 16, 2016. Forty three nations and seven U.S. Combatant Commands were represented at the conference. (DoD photo by U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann)

Islamization of Russia: Muslims Betrayed Hitler

Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

Islamization of Russia: Muslims Betrayed Hitler

TP52 - Week 33 - Religion

Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

English Defence League (EDL) demonstrated in Birmingham against extremist Muslims

Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

Since the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group attacks against the military and innocent citizens started in 2009 in Nigeria, over 2.5 million people in the northeast have been displaced. More than half of this population are women and children. Majority of those displaced now live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps or within host communities in the capital cities in the Northeast Nigerian states.

Among those displaced are public service workers, including among them, health, and social care workers. They are the frontline workers providing health services in the camps, while they themselves are also IDPs. In their daily work, they face untold challenges working in an overstretched public health system, struggling with scarce resources and providing care in unsafe and precarious working conditions.

The PSI project on “Building Trade Union Capacity to Defend the Human Rights of IDPs to Quality Public Services in Nigeria” is carried out by the PSI health and social care sector unions, namely, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The aim of the project is to ensure that IDPs can fully exercise their human rights through access to quality public services delivered in decent working conditions. The project works to build the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of workers affected by internal displacement through organizing, advocacy, and campaigns.

These photos were taken and developed through the project to provide insight into the plight of IDPs in the camps, while also showing the daily realities of health and social care workers delivering the services to IDPs. They serve as education materials and advocacy tools for the unions as they advocate for decent work and social protection for frontline workers while defending the human rights of IDPs to quality public services. Photo: TV Sense/PSI

Water scarcity and conflict over freshwater resources have contributed to an “arc of instability” stretching from West Africa through the Maghreb and across the Mediterranean to the Middle East. Rural livelihoods are collapsing, displacing many, and violent extremist organizations like Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, and ISIS are gaining footholds in areas where governance is weak. As local communities demand better provisioning of water, insurgent groups, building on discontent, use water to finance their operations and as a weapon of war.

Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/west-africa-to-the-middle-east...