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Framing frictions: frame analysis and Al-Shabaab’s mobilisation strategies in Kenya

Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2021
In the last decade, while suffering a dramatic escalation of terrorist attacks by Al-Shabaab, Kenya has become a major source of recruits for the Somali-based organisation.
Simone Papale
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Women in Al-Shabaab

2019
This chapter discusses the results of interviews with six women in Al-Shabaab who are or were married to Al-Shabaab fighters. These women lead a privileged existence both in terms of the quality of life that is accorded to them by Al-Shabaab's Executive Council, especially in comparison to the civilian population living under Al-Shabaab's control, and ...
null Khadija, Stephen Harley
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Overcoming Reintegration Barriers for Former Al-Shabaab Members in Somalia (Research Brief #17)


This research brief explores the complex process of disengagement and reintegration for former al-Shabaab members in Somalia. Based on three years of fieldwork, it highlights how clan support, formal rehabilitation, and personal motivations influence ...
Erin K. McFee, M. Khalif
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From ‘Roving’ to ‘Stationary’ Actors: Understanding the Territorial Logic of Al Shabaab in Somalia

African Security
Non-state armed actors’ (NSAAs) control of territory is not a completely new phenomenon in international politics. However, NSAAs resurgence in the conceptualization and demarcation of both physical and imaginary territorial space has raised the need for
Murat Yeşiltaş, Felix Shihundu
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Al-Qaida and Al-Shabaab

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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How Do Individuals Join the Al-Shabaab? An Ethnographic Insight into Recruitment Models for the Al-Shabaab Network in Kenya

African Security, 2021
Al-Shabaab employs diverse strategies to recruit and radicalize youth to the network. The Social Movement Theory is used to assess recruitment models for terrorist networks such as the Al-Shabaab.
F. A. Badurdeen
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Fuelling the fire: Al-Shabaab, counter-terrorism and radicalisation in Kenya

Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2021
In the last decade, facing an increase in Al-Shabaab’s activities on its soil, Kenya has tightened up its counter-terrorism policy, intensifying security operations in vulnerable areas.
Simone Papale
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A comprehensive analysis of al-Shabaab’s secret service, the Amniyat (Somalia)

South African Journal of International Affairs
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the secret service of al-Shabaab, the Amniyat. Following a brief history of al-Shabaab as a Somali-based terrorist group, the article analyses the capabilities and capacities of the Amniyat, highlighting ...
Gábor Sinkó, János Besenyő
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ANALYSIS OF GENDER RADICALIZATION IN THE FORM OF MILITARISM IN AFRICAN WOMEN: THE CASE OF WOMEN JOINING AL-SHABAAB

Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities Research
: In this article we investigate the process of recruitment of African women in Al-Shabaab as militants. The case is a greater development in processes of gender radicalization in dynamics of twenty 1 st century that women playing a Jihadist militant ...
Shakir Ullah, Zaheer Udin Baber
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Clans Division and Al-Shabaab’s Dominance in Somalia

The Korean Association for Terrorism Studies
Al-Shabaab started as a youth branch of an organization called the Islamic Legal Union, is based in Somalia and is engaged in terrorist activities in East Africa, pledging allegiance to the global terrorist organization Al Qaeda in 2010 and forming an ...
Sung Taek Cho, Woong-Seog Yim
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