Professor Liesel Ebersöhn, Director for the Centre for the Study of Resilience, participated in an invitational session of the United Nationas Security Council Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate Mission to South Africa, 7 – 9 May 2018, Pretoria. The focus of the mission was to conduct an assessment of South Africa counter terrorism machinery. The invitational discussion focused on role of the civil society in preventing and/or countering violent extremism.

The meeting also included a discussion on terrorism-financing risk and vulnerability, including self-regulation and cooperation with relevant regulatory authorities. Prof Ebersöhn was able to contribute insights related to resilience-evidence and the way in which instrumental social support in Southern Africa plausibly moderates the impact of extremism