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Al Shabaab from local to regional and global terror threat [PDF]
Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies, 2023 The Al-Shabaab group, is an off-shoot of the former Islamic Courts Union (ICU) of Somalia and the branch of Al-Qaeda in the Horn of Africa. Al-Shabaab seeks to overthrow the government in Somalia and to establish an Islamic emirate ruled by a strict ...
Shaul Shay
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The Cost of Defection: The Consequences of Quitting Al-Shabaab [PDF]
International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2019 This study investigates defections from the Al-Shabaab insurgency in Somalia. Thirty-two disengaged Al-Shabaab combatants were interviewed about their motivations, grievances, needs, and challenges in relation to the recruitment, defection, and post ...
Christian Taylor +2 more
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Liquid Territoriality and Al-Shabaab
Czech Journal of International Relations, 2020 The text presents a contribution to the study of territoriality of violent non-state actors in areas of limited internal state power projection. It presents the strategy of liquid territoriality as a survival strategy of the territorial violent non ...
Bohumil Doboš
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Support for al-Shabaab through the diaspora
Forced Migration Review, 2011 While the presence of non-state armed group al-Shabaab is primarily concentrated in Mogadishu and central Somalia, their influence has extended beyond the borders out into the lives of Somali refugees who sought to escape the violence....
Mitchell Sipus
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, 2012 O artigo pretende traçar um perfil introdutório da Al Shabaab ao nível da sua estrutura e funcionamento, realçando as graves violações de direitos humanos que tem cometido. Expõe-se a preocupante dinâmica de recrutamento de jovens da diáspora somali e de jovens estrangeiros para a jihad na Somália e enuncia-se algumas dinâmicas entre a Al Shabaab, o ...
Monteiro, Ana
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Contemporary disasters may not kill more women than men: an empirical inquiry into sex-differentiated fatalities in the twenty-first century. [PDF]
DisastersAbstract This study investigates the claim that women are disproportionately more likely to die in disasters by reviewing existing data sources and compiling new datasets on sex‐differentiated disaster fatalities in the twenty‐first century. The analysis is structured by disaster type, covering geophysical, meteorological, climatological, hydrological,
Rubin O.
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2021 Following the attack on the United States of America, counterterrorism against al-Shabaab attracted the attention of great powers and countries in the Horn of Africa.
Negasa Gelana Debisa
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Hunger in global war economies: understanding the decline and return of famines. [PDF]
DisastersAbstract The resurgence of famines is a topic of concern. This paper explains the recent trajectory using the framework of contending ‘global war economies’. It characterises the unipolar neoliberal world order era (1986–2015) as the ‘Pax Americana’ war economy, focusing on the United States dollar's roles.
de Waal A.
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Returning home: the reintegration dilemmas of female Al-Shabaab defectors in Kenya
Journal of the British Academy, 2023 Gendered responses to the disengagement and reintegration of female defectors are needed to respond to trends that indicate increasing female radicalisation and growth in the recruitment of women into terrorist networks.
Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen
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Tracing Al Shabaab’s Decision to Cooperate with Al Qaeda in Somalia (2008) [PDF]
, 2014 Special Edition issue - Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africal Shabaab, a Somali insurgent with predominantly nationalistic causes (alongside transnational [global Jihad] and Islamic goals) made the choice to fight on behalf of Al Qaeda ...
Sjah, Adlini Ilma Ghaisany
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