Over the past ten years, radicalization leading to violence has become a major concern for all countries, whether developed or developing. In parallel to the military response and because of its limits, prevention has emerged as an indispensable supplement, making it possible to attack the roots of this violence at individual, family and community level ; as has been the case in Togo since the advent of terrorist attacks in its northern part, in november 2021. Through the present study, we propose to show the substantial contribution that the Transtheorical Approach of Prochaska and al. (1995) a theory of social psychology, to the understanding of the process of radicalization and the identification of behavioral levels to be activated in order to prevent the population of the far north from becoming radicalization.
Keywords : North Togo, primary prevention, social psychology, radicalization.
