Violent Extremism and Community Policing in Tanzania
After the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi and the increasing presence of al-Shabaab in nearby countries, Tanzania turned to community policing as a way of responding to the threat of violent extremism. But is it having the desired outcome? This new report, based on workshops and interviews with police, community leaders, and others, examines the challenges and potential of community policing in addressing Tanzania’s public safety and security concerns.
About the Report
This report examines whether community policing as practiced in Tanzania can contribute to the prevention of violent extremism. Based on a series of community security workshops and more than sixty in-depth interviews conducted in the Morogoro, Tanga, and Zanzibar regions in July 2017, the report was supported by USIP’s Middle East and Africa Center.
About the Author(s)
Lillian Dang has a decade of research and program management experience in conflict-affected and postconflict countries. As a senior program officer in USIP’s Afghanistan office from 2013 to 2015, Dang designed program interventions to promote the rule of law and to counter violent extremism.