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The Unknown Youth of Al-Shabaab
2023Abstract This chapter seeks to understand the significance of children born into Al-Shabaab and how community members within Somalia perceive these children. Based on original fieldwork with teams in Somalia, the author argues that Al-Shabaab values children for three central reasons.
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2019
This chapter examines the potential for talks with Al-Shabaab, identifies potential facilitators and spoilers, and highlights lessons to be learned from past dialogues with Al-Shabaab. Three main conclusions are reached. First, many Somali and international parties agree that there exists some degree of common ground between the Federal Government of ...
Toros, Harmonie, Harley, Stephen
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This chapter examines the potential for talks with Al-Shabaab, identifies potential facilitators and spoilers, and highlights lessons to be learned from past dialogues with Al-Shabaab. Three main conclusions are reached. First, many Somali and international parties agree that there exists some degree of common ground between the Federal Government of ...
Toros, Harmonie, Harley, Stephen
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2019
This chapter focuses on the alliance between Al-Qaida and Al-Shabaab. Although cooperation between the groups is limited and irregular, the relationship has proven durable despite the loss of leaders on both sides and the emergence of Islamic State in northeast Somalia.
Tricia Bacon, Daisy Muibu
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This chapter focuses on the alliance between Al-Qaida and Al-Shabaab. Although cooperation between the groups is limited and irregular, the relationship has proven durable despite the loss of leaders on both sides and the emergence of Islamic State in northeast Somalia.
Tricia Bacon, Daisy Muibu
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2021
Abstract The Somalia-based Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujaheddin, commonly known as al-Shabaab, is a violent nonstate armed actor that has been designated a terrorist group. Its origins are a function of domestic and international factors that include the resurgence of political Islam in Somalia, the Afghan War of 1979 to 1989, state ...
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Abstract The Somalia-based Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujaheddin, commonly known as al-Shabaab, is a violent nonstate armed actor that has been designated a terrorist group. Its origins are a function of domestic and international factors that include the resurgence of political Islam in Somalia, the Afghan War of 1979 to 1989, state ...
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The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 2021
In the study of terrorism, assassinations and suicide bombings have most commonly been considered as distinct phenomena.
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In the study of terrorism, assassinations and suicide bombings have most commonly been considered as distinct phenomena.
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Dialoguing and negotiating with Al-Shabaab: the role of clan elders as insider-partial mediators
Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2021Mohammed Ibrahim Shire
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2019
This chapter considers the origins of Al-Shabaab and the gap between its rhetoric and practice. Despite its globalist agenda, reinforced by its allegiance to Al-Qaida, Al-Shabaab is at its core an ethnic movement with its focus on Somalia. As such, it can only survive, let alone expand, by offering better security, better prospects, and better ...
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This chapter considers the origins of Al-Shabaab and the gap between its rhetoric and practice. Despite its globalist agenda, reinforced by its allegiance to Al-Qaida, Al-Shabaab is at its core an ethnic movement with its focus on Somalia. As such, it can only survive, let alone expand, by offering better security, better prospects, and better ...
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Motivations and Drivers of Al-Shabaab
2019This chapter considers the motivations and drivers of Al-Shabaab. Al-Shabaab has built itself on a clear agenda: ridding Somalia of foreign forces, portrayed as Christians, and implementing the Sharia. These goals implied the need for reform and discipline of Somali society using all means: dawa (preaching) as well as violence. While the goals fit well
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