Violent Extremism in Tanzania: Does the Hard or Soft Measure Security Approaches Wins the Fight Against Violent Extremism?

The Violence Extremism (VE) is not a new phenomenon in East Africa and across the globe by and large. However, in the East Africa region came into overt in the Tanzania and Kenya bomb incidence hitting Dar es Salaam and Nairobi Embassies respectively. In responding to the tragedy present the East African States uses various initiatives to curb the same including the Preventive Violence Extremism PVE and Counter Violence Extremism CVE. These two philosophies employ differing methods to tackle the problem at hand in order to preserve their citizens in their region. The given information at hand most of countries do use reactive approach as compared to the proactive measures which normally reduces the number of causalities during confrontation. This paper seek discuss the methodology as to whether the hard part or soft part of fighting the VE will finish the atrocities of the disturbing element within the region.