We can work on governance programs. We can work on poverty. We can work on education. But if violence will remain a legitimate tool at least this is how its perceived by the majority of people in the region, then whatever progress we can aim at will, as i said, be shortlived. We are trying to include this element in our interventions. We intervened, for example, in 2012 in a region between the christians and at that time what we told them in the first place is that there is a better way to address the issue of coincidin religious dates than dealing or adopting violence to solve it. And not only we told them that violence is not going to help them and to address this issue, but we also help them to find the middle ground to celebrate both christmas during the same week while avoiding or while preventing Violent Attacks from both groups. In the aftermath of the massacre, we also explained to sunni and shia tribes that resort to go violence will not advance the judicial process and that i
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