Violent Non-State Actors in Africa: Terrorists, Rebels and Warlords

ISBN-13: 9783319846286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 340 str.

Caroline Varin; Dauda Abubakar

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Caroline Varin

PART 1: TERRORISTS

2. From Sectarianism to Terrorism in Northern Nigeria: A Closer Look at Boko Haram

Dauda Abubakar

3. Nationalist Sentiment, Terrorist Incursions and the Survival of the Malian State

Jude Cocodia

4. Islamic State in Libya

Larissa Jaeger

PART 2: REBELS

5. ‘Islamist’ rebels in DRC – the Allied Democratic Forces

Jesper Cullen

6. The Séléka and anti-Balaka rebel movements in the Central African Republic 

Wendy Isaacs-Martin

7. Rebel Movements in Ethiopia

Berouk Mesfin

8. Rebel Victory and the Rwandan Genocide

Jennifer Melvin

PART 3: WARLORDS

9. Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army

Jo-Ansie van Wyk

10. The Revolutionary United Front, Liberian Warlords and Civil War in Sierra Leone

Usman A. Tar and Sharkdam Wapmuk

11. Al-Shabaab: State Collapse, Warlords and Islamist Insurgency in Somalia

Usman A Tar and Mala Mustapha

12. Pirates in West Africa and Somalia

Clayton D. Allen

13. Conclusion

Caroline Varin

O autorze

Caroline Varin is Lecturer in Security and International Organizations at Regent’s University London and Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Dauda Abubakar is Associate Professor of Political Science and African Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. 

Blurb

This book explores the rise and impact of violent non-state actors in contemporary Africa and the implications for the sovereignty and security of African states. Each chapter tackles a unique angle on violent organizations on the continent with the view of highlighting the conditions that lead to the rise and radicalization of these groups. The chapters further examine the ways in which governments have responded to the challenge and the national, regional and international strategies that they have adopted as a result. Chapter contributors to this volume examine the emergence of Islamist terrorists in Nigeria, Mali and Libya; rebels in DR Congo, Central African Republic, Ethiopia and Rwanda; and warlords and pirates in Somalia, Uganda and Sierra Leone.