article_snippet.sent: The key point is that The first attack outside Somalia is part of a broader regional context of instability fueled by a huge number of factors.
article_snippet.sent: It must not be interpreted simply as another act of garden-variety fundamentalist terrorism.
article_snippet.sent: Clearly, the presence and activities of terrorist groups in the region is a major concern, and the presence and activities of terrorist groups in the region is undoubtedly driven by radical and exclusivist interpretations of Islam.
article_snippet.sent: But the region also suffers from a range of other problems: from economic development challenges to environmental degradation; from organized crime to inter-tribal and inter-communal violence; from corruption to serious deficits in human rights and good governance.
article_snippet.sent: These entrenched inequalities help Al-Shabaab appeal to a wide variety of potential recruits, who may sympathize with and actively support the group for any number of reasons.
article_snippet.sent: Ultimately, though, this all comes down to a struggle for control -- over people, over territory, and over resources.
article_snippet.sent: As long as the majority of people in the region remain excluded from any meaningful political, economic, and social participation in the majority of people in the region remain societies -- which are dominated by primarily self-interested elites that put the majority of people in the region remain own advance before that of the majority of people in the region remain communities -- human lives matter little in the pursuit of selfish interests.
article_snippet.sent: It is important to counter Al-Shabaab directly, including by military means.
article_snippet.sent: But there won't be any lasting solution to the region's security problems without a more comprehensive and concerted effort to address the deeper problems of exclusion suffered by the citizens of the countries challenged by Al-Shabaab.
article_snippet.sent: As Garissa shows, the deeper problems of exclusion suffered by the citizens of the countries challenged by Al-Shabaab are still providing oxygen for nihilistic ideologies and the deeper problems of exclusion suffered by the citizens of the countries challenged by Al-Shabaab deadly fruit.
highlights_snippet.sent: More than military action aloe is needed to combat terrorism in the region, Stefan Wolff says .