Conflict, Violent Extremism and Development: New Challenges, New Responses

✍ Scribed by Andrew Glazzard, Sasha Jesperson, Thomas Maguire, Emily Winterbotham

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 107
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited volume examines the implications for international development actors of new kinds of terrorism taking place in civil conflicts. The threat from terrorism and violent extremism has never been greater – at least in the global South where the vast majority of violent extremist attacks take place. Some of the most violent extremist groups are also parties to civil conflicts in regions such as the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. But are these groups – especially the violent Islamists which constitute the greatest current threat – qualitatively different from other conflict actors? If they are, what are the implications for development practitioners working in war zones and fragile or poverty-afflicted countries? This study aims to answer these questions through a combination of theoretical enquiry and the investigation of three case studies – Kenya, Nigeria, and Iraq/Syria. It aims to illuminate the differences between violent Islamists and other types of conflict actor, to identify the challenges these groups pose to development practice, and to propose a way forward for meeting these challenges.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Conflict and Violent Extremism: Theories and Evidence (Andrew Glazzard, Sasha Jesperson, Thomas Maguire, Emily Winterbotham)....Pages 3-25
Front Matter ....Pages 27-34
Kenya: More Local than Global (Andrew Glazzard, Sasha Jesperson, Thomas Maguire, Emily Winterbotham)....Pages 35-46
Nigeria: A Religious Framing of Grievances (Andrew Glazzard, Sasha Jesperson, Thomas Maguire, Emily Winterbotham)....Pages 47-55
Iraq and Syria: Complex, Dynamic and Divided (Andrew Glazzard, Sasha Jesperson, Thomas Maguire, Emily Winterbotham)....Pages 57-68
Back Matter ....Pages 69-72
Front Matter ....Pages 73-73
Implications for Development, Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (Andrew Glazzard, Sasha Jesperson, Thomas Maguire, Emily Winterbotham)....Pages 75-89
Back Matter ....Pages 91-100

✦ Subjects

Middle Eastern Politics