ALPS Resilience represented South African civil society at a weeklong workshop hosted by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) and the Security Institute for Governance and Leadership (SIGLA) entitled “National Strategies to Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism in Africa.” The program focused on African “periphery” countries that may not experience terrorism as entrenched insurgency movements, such as Nigeria or Somalia, but still play an important role in combating terror on the continent. Periphery countries may also experience isolated incidents of inspired terrorist attacks, for example the attack on a Shia mosque in KwaZulu-Natal in May 2018 that left one person dead and two i