This report shares the main insights and discussions of the “Practices and reflections on development, security and peace in the context of violent extremism and terrorism” side event co-organized with the Human Security Collective, West African Network for Peacebuilding, the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague, Cordaid, United Network of Young Peacebuilders and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict held in New York, June 2014.