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    Initiatives of United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre and Prevention of Violent Extremism in Kenya, 2015–2024
    (Kenyatta University, 2025-09) Mutheu, Lilian
    The purpose of this study was to examine the initiatives of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre and the prevention of violent extremism in Kenya from 2015 to 2024. It was guided by the following objective: assess the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre contribution to regional cooperation on preventing violent extremism involving Kenya; examine the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre strategies in preventing violent extremism in Kenya; assess the challenges faced by United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre in implementing its initiatives on violent extremism prevention in Kenya. The study scope was from 2015 to 2024. It adopted the liberalism theory and frustration-aggression theory to interpret its findings relying on descriptive survey research design. The study was conducted in Kenya, where data was collected through interview guides and questionnaires. While data was analyzed thematically and through content analysis, the study relied on research ethics during the collecting, analyzing, and presenting of its findings. The findings revealed; United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre Role in Facilitating Regional Coordination Mechanisms; Technical and Capacity-Building Support to Kenya and Neighbors and Kenya’s Role as a Regional Anchor State, also the targeted capacity building of local security actors, with a particular focus on enhancing professionalism, human rights adherence, and community relations. The findings of this study also reveals that Economic Empowerment and Youth Employment Initiatives, one of the most impactful and transformative strategies employed by the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) in Kenya and under the Strategic Communication and Counter-Narratives, the focus was on the Combatting Extremist Ideologies Online and Offline, global and national landscape of countering violent extremism (CVE) witnessed a significant paradigm shift moving away from censorship-heavy strategies toward proactive strategic communication and the development of counter-narratives. And lastly the effective implementation of violent extremism prevention initiatives by the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) in Kenya has been significantly hindered by institutional coordination challenges and bureaucratic inefficiencies, the issue of funding and resource limitations and the inadequacy of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) systems. Finally, the study recommends a further comparative study should be carried out on United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre and prevention of violence extremism in countries where terror activities are rampant.