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Militancy and Violence in West Africa: Religion, politics and radicalisation by James Gow Details

This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of extremism, militancy and violence in West Africa. Concern about terrorism in or from West Africa has been recognized in academic research,…

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This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of extremism, militancy and violence in West Africa. Concern about terrorism in or from West Africa has been recognized in academic research, and military approaches to treat it have been called into question. However, the basis for this interrogation - the need to investigate factors such as the historical and socioeconomic roots of militancy - has not been developed, nor is it proven in current studies.

The significant influence of religiously motivated extremism and violence in West Africa on international security makes it necessary to understand the issues of militancy and violence in the region. In this volume, the authors rely on empirical research in West Africa to develop understanding in these areas.

Over the course of many chapters written by leading experts in this field, the book successfully mixes historical and conceptual analysis with new empirical research gathered from focus group discussions and research interviews. Each of these baseline studies centers around five interlinked issues: tracking radical precedents.

Monitoring directions; Identification of actors; Expectation of possibilities; Power analysis of existing preventive mechanisms. This book will be of great interest to African security students, African politics, extremism, political Islam, war and conflict studies and security studies in general..



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