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Title Militancy and violence in West Africa : religion, politics and radicalisation / edited by James Gow, Funmi Olonisakin and Ernst Dijxhoorn
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 268 pages)
Series Contemporary security studies
Contemporary security studies.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction: militancy and violence in West Africa; 2 Religion, radicalisation and violence; 3 Islamic radicalisation and violence in Nigeria; 4 Islamic radicalisation and violence in Ghana; 5 Islamic radicalisation and violence in Liberia; 6 Religious militancy and violence in West Africa: a study of Islam in Sierra Leone; 7 Beyond Anglophone West Africa: endemic conflicts and new Islamic radicalism
Summary This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa. Concern about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in academic research, and the adoption of militarised approaches to addressing it questioned. However, the basis for that questioning - the need to investigate factors such as the historical and socio-economic roots of militancy - is not developed, nor is it substantiated in existing studies. The significant impact of religiously motivated radicalisation and violence in West Africa upon internation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject Terrorism -- Africa, West.
Radicalism -- Africa, West
Islamic fundamentalism -- Africa, West
Violence -- Africa, West
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
Islamic fundamentalism
Radicalism
Terrorism
Violence
West Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Gow, James
Olonisakin, 'Funmi
Dijxhorn, Ernst
ISBN 9781135968502
1135968500
9780203538791
020353879X
9781299744240
1299744249
9781135968571
1135968578