Intellectual Security Strategy to Confront Terrorism and Extremism

This study deals with the topic of Intellectual Security Strategy to Confront Extremism Violence and Terrorism in the Arab-African Strategic Depth by focusing on studying the case of Somalia during the period 1991-2023 which has influential extensions in this depth. The importance of this study comes in its dealing the phenomenon of extremism and terrorism in Somalia which has taken on deep-rooted dimensions and forms and has eluded studies and research especially in the absence of policies and strategies that could lead to finding opportunities for a solution. Accordingly the study aimed to identify the reasons that contributed to the spread of terrorism and extremism and its movements such as the emergence of an extremist movement such as Al-Shabaab Al-Mujahideen and its connection to the lobby of similar movements in the Arab world in general and the Arab-African world in particular. Although the Arab society of which Somalia is a part is characterized by a society whose people enjoy civil peace and cultural homogeneity. The Somali case is more special as it is characterized by the unity of religion and language.