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Tagged: Boko Haram

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    Boko Haram’s Factional Feuds: Internal Extremism and External Interventions

    Journal abstract This article examines the factions, leadership, and internal organization of Boko Haram, the terrorist group which has operated to devastating effect in parts of northern Nigeria, Niger, Chad,[…]

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    Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria
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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
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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[…]

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    As Terrorism Evolves
    • in Radicalisation · Research

    As Terrorism Evolves: Media, Religion, and Governance

    Publisher’s description Some of the world’s most lethal terrorist organizations have become media-centric enterprises, while also hijacking a major world religion, holding large swathes of physical territory, and governing their[…]

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    The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State

    Publisher’s description Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or[…]

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    perspective on terrorism
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    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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  • Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
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    Reality Versus Perception: Toward Understanding Boko Haram in Nigeria

    Journal abstract This article will explore the perception of individuals associated with civil society and working in Boko Haram–affected areas. This will compare the reality as reflected by former Boko[…]

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    Critical Studies on Terrorism
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    National heroes or coming anarchy? Vigilant youth and the “war on terror” in Nigeria

    Journal abstract In this article, I explore analytically how local youth vigilante groups in terror-stricken northeastern Nigeria – locally known as the Civilian Joint Task Force or yan gora (“youth[…]

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  • Journal for the Study of Religion
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    Attachment theory and religious violence: theorizing adult religious psychopathology

    Journal abstract This paper explores the ways in which attachment disruptions might increase the risk of adult religious psychopathology by drawing parallels between the possible symbolisms lying behind religious violence[…]

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    Journal for the Study of Religion
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    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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