STORY: Somali youths forge close partnerships with security institutions, to counter violent extremism
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/SOMALI NATURAL SOUND
DATELINE: 19/AUGUST/2018, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
SHOT LIST:
1. Med shot, Somali youths attending a workshop to combat violent extremism
2. Wide shot, Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia, Simon Mulongo addressing the youths
3. Close up shot, Christine Alalo, Acting AMISOM Police Commissioner listening
4. Close up shot, youths listening
5. Med shot, youths listening
6. Wide shot, youths listening to Deputy SRCC Simon Mulongo
7. Med shot, youths listening
8. Med shot, youths at the workshop
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Mulongo, Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia
“Anybody who uses dangerous means becomes an outcast, a wrong person in society and therefore the people of Somalia, like elsewhere must reject violence, extremism as a means of managing society.”
10. Med shot, the youths at the conference
11. Close up shot, youths listening
12. Med shot, youths listening
13. Close up shot, youths listening
14. Med shot, youths taking notes
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Mulongo, Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia
“As AMISOM we have come here to support the federal government and the people of Somalia through many ways, including policy. In terms of policy we have told the police to do the community policing by talking to the population and giving them messages I have mentioned, sharing with them education.”
13. Med shot, Somali youths at the workshop
14. Close up shot, a senior AMISOM police officer at the workshop
15. Med shot, Christine Alalo, Acting AMISOM Police Commissioner addressing the youths
17. Med shot, Simon Mulongo and Dr Omar Alasow, Senior International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Advisor to AMISOM, listening
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Alalo, Acting AMISOM Police Commissioner
“We had similar sessions with the Somali Police, specifically on community policing, which we think is one of the approaches or tools that we can use to counter or prevent violence or crime in the community.”
19. Med shot the youths listening
20. Close up shot a youth listening
21. Med shot, youths taking notes during the workshop
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Alalo, Acting AMISOM Police Commissioner
“If each of you can manage to convince two or more people to follow you, to listen to you and then the five also multiply to have people to listen to them and have the country at heart, I think we shall have a peaceful Mogadishu in particular and a peaceful Somalia.”
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdi Hashi Koshin, Deputy Coordinator of the Prevention and Countering of Violent Extremism Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister
“We understand the stakes are so high and the potential threat that this new phenomena of violent extremism poses a great threat to our country and that of the region.”
24. Med shot, DSRCC Simon Mulongo awarding a certificate to a youth during the closing ceremony of the workshop
25. Close up shot, certificate
26. Wide shot, DSRCC Simon Mulongo awarding a certificate
27. Med shot, Christine Alalo, Acting AMISOM Police Commissioner awarding a certificate
28. Wide shot, the youths leaving the conference room at the end of the workshop
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Zahra Abdi Hagi, Participant
The youth have come together here to acquire knowledge and learn more about why certain people are prone to violent extremism while others don’t join or participate and what strategies we can use from the information that we gathered here to prevent people from joining these extremist groups and using our youth to create problems in the country.”
30. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Guled Hassan Ali, Participant
“I have learnt that it is better to prevent the youth from joining violent extremism rather than trying to lure them back. This can be done through awareness campaigns in the media, sensitization by religious leaders and by keeping them engaged through sports.”
STORY
Somali youths forge close partnerships with security institutions, to counter violent extremism
Mogadishu, 20 August 2018 - The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), is training youths to partner with security institutions to deter crime and put a check on violent extremism in Somalia.