Crime-Terror Nexus
In recent years, the pace of globalisation has drastically changed the global security landscape. Behind the current infestation of extremism, there is an influx of non-state actors that exceed borders and threaten global peace and stability.
Violent extremism has many faces; it can be expressed as an act of terrorism; cyber-attack; organised crime; conflict. Due to its perplexing and multidimensional nature, this phenomenon usually prospers in regions where despair, repression and weak governmental presence plague its people (European Union, 2017). Therefore, it is no coincidence that extremism thrives in the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
