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Fatima Akilu

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2021-01-12
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  1. “Unless we work together in a holistic, all-of-society approach, we will forever be unable to fill the many gaps that exist in our counter-terrorism response.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  2. “As a current member of civil society, I believe that we are a critical source of expertise, capacity-building and local knowledge and could be a veritable bridge to build trust between victims of terrorism and Governments’ counter-terrorism efforts. We are in a unique position to advise Governments while providing an evidence base for their policies, based on the research that we are able to carry out. If invited, we can help build the capacity of States to prevent terrorism, especially in the areas of negotiation, rehabilitation, reintegration, services for women and girls and adherence to human rights norms. In conclusion, we would like to see far greater involvement among the Counter- Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, Governments and civil society.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  3. “They have been subjected to gender-based violence, both at the hands of insurgents and within their communities, some at the hands of caregivers, including security-service members, and a large number face reduced or lack of access to reproductive health services. For a lot of those women, especially in rural or poor urban communities, where there is often an absence of governance, the only services they receive are from civil-society organizations. Governments can work with those organizations to identify victims and ensure that their human rights are protected and that access to services is expanded for them.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  4. “Thirdly, the Lake Chad Basin Commission, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme, has set up the first regional civil-society platform, S/2021/48 to be led by the Neem Foundation, to work with all member States of the region in order to come up collectively with comprehensive rehabilitation and reintegration plans. Those plans will then be implemented with direct support from the member States and provide an opportunity for joint learning and the documentation of best practice. Fourthly, women and girls have been disproportionately affected by insurgency and conflict.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  5. “Secondly, the African Union and the Regional Stabilization, Recovery and Resilience Strategy for Areas Affected by Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin Region focuses on the screening, prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration of terrorist suspects. A result of this greater harmonization with civil society is that organizations such as mine now work with Governments in designated rehabilitation and reintegration centres. My organization, Neem, has been doing psychological testing and risk assessments on behalf of the military for their detainees.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  6. “When Member States and civil society come together, we have the very best chance of combating terrorism in the long term. I would like to briefly give four examples of such partnerships that I am involved in. The first is that my organization, along with multiple civil-society organizations, is working with the Multinational Joint Task Force — a military outfit supporting four countries — in the Lake Chad basin and the Lake Chad Basin Commission with the political leadership to devise a strategic action plan with a robust communications strategy to counter Boko Harm, on the premise that counter- terrorism is a shared responsibility.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  7. “In implementing this, we realized that we would need a generational capacity in multiple fields to counter terrorism, from psychology and research to criminal justice as well as peace studies. However, to truly combat terrorism, we need both Member States and civil society to come together in a spirit of cooperation. Working in Government, I was acutely aware of the gaps that only robust civil-society partnerships could fill, and similarly, as a member of civil society, each day I am more aware of the limitations that I face. While the United Nations recognizes the importance of partnership with civil- society organizations and its impact on advancing mutual goals, that approach has not always been applied consistently by Member States.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  8. “In 2015, having set up a complementary soft approach to Nigeria’s counter- terrorism infrastructure that included our first deradicalization programme and a counter-radicalization programme focusing on peace studies, values and critical thinking as well as setting up the first network, called Pave, between Nigeria’s security sector and civil society, I left Government to join civil society. In 2016, I set up the Neem Foundation, and we designed and implemented several programmes. They included a comprehensive reintegration programme for people coming out of Boko Haram, a trauma-based programme to address the psychological impact of the insurgency, early-warning mechanisms to spot signs of radicalization and a reintegration programme for defectors.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  9. “I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for your invitation to address this especially important meeting on the twentieth anniversary of resolution 1373 (2001), which led to the establishment of counter-terrorism infrastructure within the United Nations, to give a civil-society perspective. For the best part of the last decade, I have been involved in counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism, first as part of Government and now as part of civil society. That has given me perhaps a unique vantage point to survey the landscape that we now find ourselves in.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source