The number of ISIS foreign fighters is positively correlated with a country’s GDP per capita and its Human Development Index.

A fundamental initial step in effective programming for preventing violent extremism is to understand what is driving it.

The fight against terrorism has come at a tremendous cost of lives lost and development disrupted. Radical Islamist extremism has become the world’s most potent global revolutionary force and terrorism has become a constant threat inside and outside our societies.

Terrorism today has emerged as one of the most potent threats to global peace and security.

Terror attacks began increasing in Asia in the early 2000s. According to the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), South Asia was more affected than anywhere else in the world between 2008 and 2013.

In 2015 successes by international military coalitions targeting ISIL and Boko Haram corresponded with the intensification of terrorism in many countries.