Harakat al Shabaab al Mujahideen, commonly known as Al-Shabaab is an Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in East Africa. For nearly two decades, Al-Shabaab has endured as the most potent and lethal jihadist force in Somalia, at times controlling large portions of the country and building a global profile ...
Abstract
To deconstruct the strategic logic of terrorism and understand how the two major jihadists groups operate, their identity & ideological disparity becomes primary focus. Al-Qaeda frames its identity as the protector of Muslims from the evil West while Islamic States poses as the sole legitimate religious ...
What is Radicalization? It is a common question in CVE with varying academic answers. Radicalization is the gradual social process into extremism and is often applied to explain changes in ideas or behavior. In other terms it can as well be defined as a process of ...
Jihadist is a term that has been used in the past three decades as a way to differentiate between violent and non-violent Sunni Islamists who have expressed the explicit need to rework governments and society in accordance with strict Sharia or Islamic law.
Background
The Ideology of ...
Child soldiers is not a new phenomenon, especially in countries struck by war and global terror organizations (GTO). Like all child soldiers involved with armed groups, children who are recruited into terrorist organizations are exposed to extreme forms of violence.
Literature and intelligence indicate that different groups ...
Radicalization is the process of causing someone to adopt radical positions on political or social issues. Radicalization to terrorism creates the motivational or cognitive preconditions ripe for terrorism (wherein terrorism is usually an instrument through which its perpetrators, lacking mass support, attempt to realize a political ...
The Jihadists' greatest weapon and tool is that the overall ideologies and principles that guide them are rooted in the sanctity of the Islamic values and teachings of the Quran and other religious texts. The righteousness of the movement and the simple nature of their operating ...
