Refugees’ loss of self-worth and sense of social responsibility is often what leads to extremism.
![A Somali refugee boy at the Ifo camp in Dadaab near the Kenya-Somalia border [REUTERS]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/c8b128836036425c9fcde7c20f8a032f_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Abraham Leno is currently the country representative for the American Refugee Committee in Bukavu, Congo.
Refugees’ loss of self-worth and sense of social responsibility is often what leads to extremism.
![A Somali refugee boy at the Ifo camp in Dadaab near the Kenya-Somalia border [REUTERS]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/c8b128836036425c9fcde7c20f8a032f_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)