ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Countering Jihadi Insurgencies in Africa: Repress, Resist & Reorder
Many African countries, including Libya, Nigeria, Mali, DR Congo, Somalia, and Mozambique, have been affected by violence of Salafi-Jihadi insurgent armed groups. These groups pose a distinct threat to social, political, and economic orders across Africa as they violently reject the nation-state and can rely on support from the transnational violent networks of the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. Research has primarily focused on international responses to “violent extremism” in Africa, but international actors do not operate in a vacuum and interact with responses on the ground. If we want to understand and effectively tackle this violent threat, we need to know more about how domestic…
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