Fighting for Peace in Somalia
A History and Analysis of the African Union Mission (AMISOM), 2007-2017 Publisher’s description Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia[…]
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Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria: The Military and Operations against Boko Haram, 2011-2017
Publisher’s description This book offers a detailed examination of the counter-insurgency operations undertaken by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram between 2011 and 2017. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted with[…]
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Understanding Boko Haram: Terrorism and Insurgency in Africa
Publisher’s description The primary objective of this book is to understand the nature of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria. Boko Haram’s goal of an Islamic Caliphate, starting in[…]
A Response to Jacob Zenn on Boko Haram and al-Qa‘ida
Journal abstract A recent special issue of Perspectives on Terrorism, published in December 2017 (Volume 11, Number 6, pp. 174-190), included an article by Jacob Zenn entitled “Demystifying al-Qaida in[…]
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From Resilience to Fragmentation: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Jihadist Group Modularity
Journal abstract During the last decade, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) managed to survive despite suffering four major fragmentations. Through the case study of AQIM, the goal of[…]
An analysis of the epistemic link between the Catholic religion and violence in Uganda’s history
Journal abstract Uganda’s recent history of violence has had an interesting characteristic: it has arguably been mainly within the Christian and more specifically Catholic religious space. I examine four cases[…]
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The deployment of a ‘sacred song’ in violence in Zimbabwe: The case of the song ‘Zimbabwe Ndeye Ropa Ramadzibaba’
Journal abstract The dominant narrative in the study of religion in Africa is that African indigenous religions are non-violent, peaceful and seek to promote healing and integration. In this paradigm,[…]
From non-violent protests to suicide bombing: social movement theory reflections on the use of suicide violence in the Nigerian Boko Haram
Journal abstract This article uses the northern Nigerian-born Boko Haram to reflect on the development and use of suicide violence in Salafi-Islamist groups. Drawing on data from a combination of[…]
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Beyond Conversion: Socio-Mental Flexibility and Multiple Religious Participation in African-Derived Lukumi and Ifa
Journal abstract Despite recent attention to issues of religious diversification, mobility, and multiplicity, few sociologists have attended to the socio-cognitive dimensions of multiple religious participation. Sociologists have long suggested that[…]
Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam
Publisher’s description Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a[…]
A Guide to Interviewing Terrorists and Violent Extremists19 February, 2020
The Promotion of Secularization as a Counterterrorism Strategy to Religious Terrorism: A Case Study of Iraq17 February, 2020
Law, state and right-wing extremism in India14 February, 2020
Returning to the Fight: An Empirical Analysis of Terrorist Reengagement and Recidivism12 February, 2020