Like many other regions, South Asia is confronted with a rapidly transforming terrorism threat landscape that is increasingly transnational in nature. Local grievances and sociopolitical dynamics have been exploited by groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and linked to a global master narrative of conflict. At the national and local levels,
civil society actors, with a wide range of experts and practitioners, seek to address many of these conditions and grievances that fuel support for terrorism and violent extremism, for instance, through improving access to public health, education, and social services; promoting pluralist and tolerant societies; and advocating for more effective and accessible national institutions.

These efforts provide important lessons and good practices that can inform cooperative multi-stakeholder policies aimed at addressing terrorism and countering violent extremism (CVE) in South Asia.