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    Radicalisation: Regional guides

    The different pathways into extremist groups varies from region to region. What might be a common theme of radicalisation in Africa won’t necessarily be true for the Middle East. Too[…]

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    Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
    • in Research · World

    The Psychology of Foreign Fighters

    Journal abstract The recent influx of foreign fighters into Syria, particularly those aligning with the Islamic State, has brought renewed attention to the security threat posed by people who cross[…]

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    • in Ideologies · Regions · Research · World

    What does Bamiyan tell us about Muslim attitudes to Buddhism? Unpacking ‘Buddhist-Muslim conflicts’ in contemporary Asia

    Journal abstract The article highlights through a case study of the Taliban’s destruction of the Buddha statues of Bamiyan in 2001, that there has been considerable diversity in Muslim attitudes[…]

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    • in Causes of radicalisation · Groups · Ideologies · Radicalisation · Regions · Research · World

    The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan

    Publisher’s description: Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related groups, is[…]

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    • in Ideologies · Regions · Research · World

    Nonstate Actors in Intrastate Conflicts

    Publisher’s description Intrastate conflicts, such as civil wars and ethnic confrontations, are the predominant form of organized violence in the world today. But internal strife can destabilize entire regions, drawing[…]

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    • in Pathways to radicalisation · Radicalisation · Regions · Research · World

    Foreign Fighters

    Publisher’s description: In conflict zones around the world, the phenomenon of foreign insurgents fighting on behalf of local rebel groups is a common occurrence. They have been an increasing source[…]

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    • in Causes of radicalisation · Groups · Radicalisation · Research

    Kashars against Mashars : Jihad and Social change in the FATA

    Focusing on developments in South Waziristan and arguing that there the Taliban is a movement of the young, poor, and those belonging to minor lineages or powerless tribes against tribal elders, the Political Agent appointed by the Government of Pakistan, and also against the so-called “mafia of maliks, transporters and traffickers”.

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    • in Causes of radicalisation · Regions · Research · World

    Exceptional Pashtuns? : Class Politics, Imperialism and Historiography

    Extends the argument that in order to understand the Taliban we need to go beyond the stereotyped images of Pashtun exceptionalism and Islamic fanaticism to look at socio-economic class and imperialism.

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    • in Regions · Research · World

    Heroes of the Age : Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier

    Argues that Afghanistan’s troubles arise from the continuing existence of what are in many respects incompatible cultural principles that generate moral contradictions which make it difficult for the modern nation-state to take root there.

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    Architect of Global Jihad : The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus’ab Al-Suri

    A biography on one of the key theorists of jihad, Abu Mus’ab Al-Suri.

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