There should also be stronger connections between civil society actors, both nationally and internationally.
"Civil society actors are also under pressure – the universities, the media, people using social media.
Often civil society actors have the expertise, networks and knowledge from other countries, which can benefit government.
So prevention means effective, proactive diplomacy by the UN and others at all levels of that society, at the local civil society actors, all stakeholders.
He stressed repeatedly that "the most successful counter-radicalisation work is not done by the state, it is done by civil society actors".
The summit will bring together a range of local community philanthropy organisations, public and private donors and other civil society actors under the rallying cry to #ShiftThePower.
Amadou Haya Sanogo, the leader of the coup that ousted the president last month, said he was calling "the entire political class and all civil society actors" to a national convention on Thursday.
But these virtuous civil society actors will only succeed if they find allies in the Communist Party, if they can empower those party cadres who understand the risk to stability, and to their party's future, posed by runaway corruption.
By late 2010, these efforts contributed to the secretary of health drafting a national strategy for the prevention of adolescent pregnancies, calling on national and international intergovernmental and civil society actors to inform its development.
