The natural tendency to throw incumbents out in the face of wrong-track environment is tempered by potential risk of unknown -- especially in the face of extremist alternatives.
Some 61 million children around the world still don't attend even primary school, and President Obama in his 2008 campaign was right to propose a global education fund, in part as an alternative to extremist religious schools.
Somalia appointed six female prosecutors; Morocco is training female spiritual guides to provide an alternative to extremist beliefs.
The study also flags up the tactic of extremist tweeters switching to alternative platforms — including secure messaging app Telegram — although the researchers assert that, at present, other platforms are used "primarily as backups for Twitter".
Fourth, the modernist liberal trend should be supported effectively with clear stances, instead of the Obama Administration supporting only moderate Islam, on the basis with which it has promoted itself to be -- i.e. as the alternative to extremist Islam and the deterrent against it.
He prefers to cut aid that would help Indonesia build more government schools as alternatives to extremist Islamic schools, among other programmes.
Last autumn, Facebook launched a project with the thinktank Demos on what it calls "counterspeech", providing alternatives to extremist narratives, and it has recently begun working with academics at King's College London who specialise in jihadi propaganda.
The foreign powers are hoping to re-energize what remains of the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army as a "moderate" alternative to extremists with such groups as Al Nusra Frontiatedeemedusra Fronterroristd a terrorganizationzation by Washington — that seek to impose militant Islamic rule.
Britain must offer support to moderate opposition forces in Syria to prevent extremist groups becoming the only alternative to the current regime, the UK prime minister has said.
Together with other inter-governmental institutions bringing together civil society and citizens across the Mediterranean, the Anna Lindh Foundation's 10-year strategy "Working Together Towards 2025" (Anna Lindh Foundation, 2015) also argues for interculturalism as an alternative to the extremist narrative.
