Well, for example it can be countered by offering all young men from these regions jobs outside. For example, in the military, creating a large mobile military force recruited from these regions for operations in say, Afghanistan, offering them good pay and discouraging them from returning - and encouraging people from other regions or countries moving in their place (for example by lowering barrier of entry for immigrants as long as they are going there, or increasing otherwise) - until "locals" become a minority and their social connection networks disrupts or become irrelevant.
This mafia thing is definitely cultural - "it is the way things are done there" - so it can be fixed by replacing/diluting people.
This mafia thing is definitely cultural - "it is the way things are done there" - so it can be fixed by replacing/diluting people.