Despite government denials, Bangladesh has increasingly become fertile ground for al-Qa`ida and the Islamic State. Both groups have taken advantage of an upsurge in Islamist militancy in the country over anger at the execution of Islamist political leaders in 2013, and both hope to expand their footprint there by building…
PRISTINA, Kosovo — Every Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a show of kneeling to pray on the sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture store. The mosque is one of scores…
A recent report by The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on the impact of Boko Haram on children in Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon offers insight into the devastating effects that the group leaves in its wake. The report estimates that 1.3 million children were displaced in 2015, an…
Since 2011, the OSCE has been at the forefront of international efforts to highlight the need for gender mainstreaming to effectively prevent and counter terrorism. In particular, the OSCE recognized needs to systematically integrate gender aspects in technical and policy responses to violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism…
La seducción de la narrativa yihadista exhorta a la búsqueda de instrumentos ad hoc que palien o interrumpan los procesos de radicalización en ciernes de muchos individuos que se sienten atraídos por ella. Con frecuencia se suele describir a la amenaza yihadista como polimórfica o poliédrica, por lo tanto si…
The kidnapping of 276 girls at Government Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria, on 14 April 2014 has brought into international prominence the organization Jama’atu Ahlis Suna Lidda’awati Wal Jihad or Boko Haram. This incident heralded a new trajectory in Boko Haram’s tactics and strategies. This article focuses on Boko…
MOGADISHU, Somalia — For years they were children at war, boys given rifles and training by al-Qaeda-backed militants and sent to the front lines of this country’s bloody conflict. Many had been kidnapped from schools and soccer fields and forced to fight. The United Nations pleaded for them to be…
This Research Paper explores and questions some assumed causal links between terrorism on the one hand and (forced and irregular) migration on the other. The paper delves into the role that state and non-state terrorism might have in causing migration as well as analysing if and how refugees’ camps and…
Terrorism and violent extremism have been threats to South East Asia for decades, with local and international terrorist organizations such as AlQaeda historically establishing networks aligned with local conflicts. For example, Al-Qaeda has established connections with the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in the Philippines, Lashkar Jundullah in Indonesia, Kumpulan Mujahidin…
Foreign Terrorist Fighters undermine international peace and security by joining terrorist organisations and by contributing to the conflict and to the execution of terrorist acts, both in the conflict theatres and their home countries. Policies to counteract this phenomenon have been adopted at both the international and national levels, including…
This article examines the overused notion of radicalization and analyzes the research that has been done so far on the subject. Drawing on examples from diverse Islamist and nationalist conflicts and struggles, this article seeks to propose a more general and objective view of the notion of radicalization, one that…
Jusque dans les années 2010, la violence idéologique et politique était appréhendée, en France, à partir du champ sémantique du terrorisme. Progressivement, ce terme a cédé le pas à celui de « radicalisation », dont la sphère de pertinence est bien plus étendue que celle du premier. Bien que faisant…
