ISBN:
9780415821377
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (289 p)
Series Statement:
Contemporary Security Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version West African Militancy and Violence
DDC:
303.48409409045
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa.Concern about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in academic research, and the adoption of militarised approaches to addressing it questioned. However, the basis for that questioning - the need to investigate factors such as the historical and socio-economic roots of militancy - is not developed, nor is it substantiated in existing studies. The significant impact of religiously motivated radicalisation and violence in West Africa upon internation
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction: militancy and violence in West Africa; 2 Religion, radicalisation and violence; 3 Islamic radicalisation and violence in Nigeria; 4 Islamic radicalisation and violence in Ghana; 5 Islamic radicalisation and violence in Liberia; 6 Religious militancy and violence in West Africa: a study of Islam in Sierra Leone; 7 Beyond Anglophone West Africa: endemic conflicts and new Islamic radicalism
Description / Table of Contents:
8 The regional and international implications of radicalisation and violent extremism in West AfricaIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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