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Opportunity Costs or Costly Opportunities? The Arab Spring, Osama Bin Laden, and Al-Qaeda’s African Affiliates

Perspectives on Terrorism, 2011
 There is little doubt that Al-Qaeda faces twin challenges in the “Arab Spring” sweeping North Africa and the Middle East (MENA) and in the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011.
Alex S. Wilner
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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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Discovering the mesoscale for chains of conflict. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus, 2023
Kushwaha N, Lee ED.
europepmc   +1 more source

An Assessment of Returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters’ Commitment to Reintegrate: A Case Study of Kwale County, Kenya

Journal for Deradicalization, 2020
This study seeks to contribute to filling the prevailing research deficit in empirical data informed by Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTFs) and their experiences of, and challenges in, reintegration, through qualitative interviews with returning FTFs in ...
Tina Mykkänen
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Youth Evaluations of CVE/PVE Programming in Kenya in Context

Journal for Deradicalization, 2016
Despite the military efforts of the Kenyan, Ethiopian, and Somali Federal governments, the collaboration of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) forces with US and coalition forces, and despite the enormous tactical and strategic set-backs that ...
Melissa Finn, Bessma Momani, Michael Opatowski, Michael Opondo   +3 more
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The teachers’ evolving role in mitigating violent extremism in Kenyan secondary schools

Discover Education
Violent Extremism is of great concern to the world today. Many countries, while formulating policies to combat violent extremism, look only to military force and surveillance (hard power) that deal with already radicalized individuals.
John Njeru Maringa, Garai Imre, György Mészáros   +2 more
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Al-Shabaab’s responsibility to protect civilians in Somalia

Forced Migration Review, 2011
For 20 years armed groups have been permanent fixtures of the conflicts in Somalia and have been direct participants in human rights and humanitarian law violations.
Allehone Mulugeta Abebe
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"This changes things": Children, targeting, and the making of precision. [PDF]

Coop Confl, 2022
Beier JM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Somali Piracy: The Next Iteration

Perspectives on Terrorism, 2010
The article describes the escalation of acts of maritime piracy emanating from the coast of Somalia, comparing them to the wave of aerial hijackings in the 1960s and 1970s in terms of demands, including political demands.
Peter Lehr
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Dinâmicas da Al Shabaab

Nação e Defesa, 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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources