What We're Reading

September 2017 | RESOLVE Global Forum 2017

In preparation for RESOLVE's Global Annual Forum on September 27, 2017, the RESOLVE Network team’s “What We’re Reading” post for September features key publications related to each of our Forum panels.  

The Forum will feature preeminent international scholars and experts from across the Network’s 20-plus partner organizations around the world. In addition to offering opportunities to connect with leading thinkers, practitioners and policymakers involved in developing responses to violent extremism, the day of panels and roundtable discussions will highlight findings from a year-long study on the rise of violent extremism in Bangladesh and preview upcoming research on the politics of religion in the Lake Chad Basin region.

Panelists will address questions including what do we know about how and when terrorists decide to enter and exit violence, and how do the politics of religion, migration, and identity factor into efforts to counter violent extremism?

 

Click on the links below to view the documents and register for the Forum today!

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Ibrahim, Ibrahim Yahaya. “The Wave of Jihadist Insurgency in West Africa: Global Ideology, Local Context, Individual Motivations” OECD West African Papers, July 28, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1787/eb95c0a9-en. 

Kwaja, Chris. “Nigeria’s Pernicious Drivers of Ethno-Religious Conflict” Africa Security Brief, July 2011. https://africacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ACSS-Africa-Security-Brief-No.-14-EN.pdf.  

Campbell, John. “What Makes Boko Haram Run?” Council on Foreign Relations, May 05, 2016. https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/what-makes-boko-haram-run.  

“Journey to extremism in Africa” United Nations Development Programme, September 07, 2017. https://www.undp.org/africa/publications/journey-extremism-africa

Ngari, Allan, and Denys Rev. “How Ethnic and Religious Discrimination Drive Violent Extremism” Institute for Security Studies, September 06, 2017. https://issafrica.org/research/africa-report/how-ethnic-and-religious-discrimination-drive-violent-extremism

Murray, Rebecca. “Southern Libya Destabilized: The Case of Ubari” Small Arms Survey, April 2017. https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/sites/default/files/resources/SAS-SANA-BP-Ubari.pdf

Gul, Imtiaz. “The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier” Penguin, July 2010. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/178838/the-most-dangerous-place/9780141962986.html

Gaston, Erica, and András Derzsi-Horváth. “Iraq after ISIL: An Analysis of Local, Hybrid, and Sub-State Security Forces” Global Public Policy Institute, August 2017. https://www.gppi.net/issue-area/peace-security/militias/local-and-sub-state-forces-in-iraq

Yalçınkaya, Haldun. “Foreign Fighters of ISIS and Their Security Threat: The Experience of Turkey” The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, December 06, 2017. https://orsam.org.tr/en/foreign-fighters-of-isis-and-their-security-threat-the-experience-of-turkey-2014-2016/?amp=evet

Pearson, Elizabeth, and Emily Winterbotham. “Women, Gender and Daesh Radicalisation” The RUSI Journal, July 28, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2017.1353251

“National Dialogue and Social Contract” Pak Institute for Peace Studies, November 27, 2017. https://www.pakpips.com/article/book/national-policy-brief-3-national-dialogue-and-social-contract

“Molenbeek and Violent Radicalization: ‘A Social Mapping'” European Institute of Peace, June 2017. https://view.publitas.com/eip/eip-molenbeek-report-16-06/page/1

Horgan, John G. , Max Taylor, Mia Bloom, and Charlie Winter. “From Cubs to Lions: A Six Stage Model of Child Socialization into the Islamic State” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, September 10, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2016.1221252

Soufan, Ali. “Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State” New York: W. W. Norton & Company, May 2017. https://wwnorton.com/books/Anatomy-of-Terror/

Aziz, Sahar F. “Rethinking Counterterrorism in the Age of ISIS” Nebraska Law Review, 2016. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3028&context=nlr

Abdo, Geneive. “The New Sectarianism: The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi’a-Sunni Divide” Brookings, April 10, 2013. https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-new-sectarianism-the-arab-uprisings-and-the-rebirth-of-the-shia-sunni-divide/.