Insurgency Terrorism And Counterterrorism In Africa

Author : George Klay Kieh Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793649375
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insurgency, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism in Africa written by George Klay Kieh Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an examination of insurgent movements and terrorist organizations, as well as state policies that instigate intrastate conflicts in African states. It examines the tactics used by anti-government forces, states’ counterterrorism responses, and the human security impacts of insecurity on citizens in Africa.

Author : H. Solomon
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137489883
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Africa written by H. Solomon and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional counter-terrorism approaches, with their emphasis on the military, are failing. This is seen in the fact that there is an average of three terrorist attacks per day in Africa. This study calls for more holistic solutions, with an emphasis on development and better governance to curb the scourge of terrorism.

Author : Usman A. Tar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351271903
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in Africa written by Usman A. Tar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates how Africa’s defence and security domains have been radically altered by drastic changes in world politics and local ramifications. First, the contributions of numerous authors highlight the transnational dimensions of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency in Africa and reveal the roles played by African states and regional organisations in the global war on terror. Second, the volume critically evaluates the emerging regional architectures of countering terrorism, insurgency, and organised violence on the continent through the African Union Counterterrorism Framework (AU-CTF) and Regional Security Complexes (RSC). Third, the book sheds light on the counterterrorism and counterinsurgency (CT-COIN) structures and mechanisms established by specific African states to contain, degrade, and eliminate terrorism, insurgency, and organised violence on the continent, particularly the successes, constraints, and challenges of the emerging CT-COIN mechanisms. Finally, the volume highlights the entry of non-state actors – such as civil society, volunteer groups, private security companies, and defence contractors – into the theatre of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency in Africa through volunteerism, community support for state-led CT-COIN Operations, and civil-military cooperation (CIMIC). This book will be of use to students and scholars of security studies, African studies, international relations, and terrorism studies, and to practitioners of development, defence, security, and strategy.

Author : James J. Hentz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315525046
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Boko Haram written by James J. Hentz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the Borno State in the North East that will eventually cover the areas of the former Kanem-Borno Empire, is a rejection of the modern state system forced on it by the West. The central theme of this volume examines the relationship between the failure of the state-building project in Nigeria and the outbreak and nature of insurgency. At the heart of the Boko Haram phenomenon is a country racked with cleavages, making it hard for Nigeria to cohere as a modern state. Part I introduces this theme and places the Boko Haram insurgency in a historical context. There are, however, multiple cleavages in Nigeria ̶ ethnic, regional, cultural, and religious ̶ and Part II examines the different state-society dynamics fuelling the conflict. Political grievances are common to every society; however, what gives Boko Haram the space to express such grievances through violence? Importantly, this volume demonstrates that the insurgency is, in fact, a reflection of the hollowness within Nigeria’s overall security. Part III looks at the responses to Boko Haram by Nigeria, neighbouring states, and external actors. For Western actors, Boko Haram is seen as part of the "global war on terror" and the fact that it has pledged allegiance to ISIS encourages this framing. However, as the chapters here discuss, this is an over-simplification of Boko Haram and the West needs to address the multiple dimension of Boko Haram. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence, insurgencies, African politics, war and conflict studies, and IR in general.

Author : H. Solomon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137489898
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Africa written by H. Solomon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional counter-terrorism approaches, with their emphasis on the military, are failing. This is seen in the fact that there is an average of three terrorist attacks per day in Africa. This study calls for more holistic solutions, with an emphasis on development and better governance to curb the scourge of terrorism.

Author : Daniel E Agbiboa
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472129783
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency written by Daniel E Agbiboa and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency, Daniel Agbiboa takes African insurgencies back to their routes by providing a transdisciplinary perspective on the centrality of mobility to the strategies of insurgents, state security forces, and civilian populations caught in conflict. Drawing on one of the world’s deadliest insurgencies, the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region, this well-crafted and richly nuanced intervention offers fresh insights into how violent extremist organizations exploit forms of local immobility and border porosity to mobilize new recruits, how the state’s “war on terror” mobilizes against so-called subversive mobilities, and how civilian populations in transit are treated as could-be terrorists and subjected to extortion and state-sanctioned violence en route. The multiple and intersecting flows analyzed here upend Eurocentric representations of movement in Africa as one-sided, anarchic, and dangerous. Instead, this book underscores the contradictions of mobility in conflict zones as simultaneously a resource and a burden. Intellectually rigorous yet clear, engaging, and accessible, Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency is a seminal contribution that lays bare the neglected linkages between conflict and mobility.

Author : Usman A. Tar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498574114
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Architecture of Regional Security in Africa written by Usman A. Tar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically explores the emerging architecture of regional security in Africa with particular reference to counterterrorism and counterinsurgency in the Lake Chad Basin Region. In New Architecture of Regional Security in Africa, the contributors--scholars, policy-makers, and defense/security practitioners from both within and outside Africa--examine the evolution, dynamics, and working mechanisms for peace and security or emerging regional security architecture for regional security in the region. The volume will be essential reading for all academics, scholars, and researchers in academia and NGOs with interests in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism related issues in the Lake Chad Basin region. Additionally, the volume will also be useful for students of counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, small wars, terrorism and strategic studies, and defense and security studies. It will also provide invaluable reference material for policy practitioners working on the activities in the contemporary operating environment within the Lake Chad Basin region. This book offers innovative perspectives on the emerging architecture for regional security in Africa, with a focus on how member states of the Lake Chad Basin Commission are coping with the challenges of terrorism and insurgency. Edited by Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala, the volume is the first to critically document regional security in the Lake Chad Basin.

Author : Seth G. Jones
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 083309484X
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in Somalia written by Seth G. Jones and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report analyzes the U.S. and allied campaign against the al Qa’ida–linked terrorist group al Shabaab in Somalia, examines what steps have been most successful against the group, and identifies potential recommendations. It concludes that, while al Shaba'ab was weakened between 2011 and 2016, the group could resurge if urgent steps are not taken to address the political, economic, and governance challenges at the heart of the conflict.

Author : Dessalegn Oulte
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656986444
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book System of Terror in Africa. An Approach to Counter-Terrorism written by Dessalegn Oulte and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: EXLLENT, , course: NATIONAL SECURITY, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses systematic elements of terrorist groups that determine their continued existence and operational effectiveness in Africa. According to system theory, open systems are real-world systems whose boundaries allow exchanges of energy, material, information, resources etc. with the larger external environment or system in which they exist. Accordingly, terrorism phenomenon is an open system in which ideology, tactics, technology and many other aspects shared among terrorist groups despite their differences in many aspects. Hence, the paper will argues such common trends of terrorist phenomenon in Africa.

Author : Akali Omeni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788317254
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insurgency and War in Nigeria written by Akali Omeni and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boko Haram is the major threat to the Nigerian state, and has emerged as a destabilizing factor across sub-Saharan Africa. This is now a major focus of global policy-making, as between 2013 and 2014 insurgency-related deaths in Nigeria exceeded those in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is the first to focus on the military nature of Boko Haram, the reasons for its success in those specific regions of the Chad basin it operates in and a detailed history of the Nigerian army's counter-insurgency – with whom, uniquely, the author has spent research time. The book identifies and analyses the battles and skirmishes on the front line, as well as unearthing a wider explanation for Boko Haram's military success and the causes of the instability in the region.