In the past six months, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have executed two deadly, well-coordinated attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso’s respective capitals of Bamako and Ouagadougou.
Tag: terrorism
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In the struggle to unify Libya, conflict continues to plague the center of the country as militants linked to the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) continue to take control of territory and threaten the critical oil processing and export sites in the Gulf of Sirte.
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Pakistan today faces a fundamental choice on whether or not it will continue to pursue its illogical counterterrorism policies, which have largely backfired and now threaten key institutions of the state.
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Naz Modirzadeh, Director of Harvard Law School’s Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, discusses the challenges that face humanitarians working within new counterterrorism and countering violent extremism frameworks.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched his new plan of action on preventing violent extremism (PVE) on January 15th, recognizing the urgency of getting ahead of the phenomenon and stopping the next wave of recruits falling prey to the growing allure of violent ideology.
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The disconnection between message and tangible realities is likely to blame for the lack of meaningful outcomes attributed to countering violent extremism.
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Despite the increasing public acknowledgment of the limitations of military responses and the recognition that responding to violence with more violence makes us all more insecure, there continues to be deliberate reluctance to dig deeper in diagnosing some of the powerful drivers of violent extremists.
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Many mainstream Salafi figures have already denounced Boko Haram and its violent ideology. The group’s response to this criticism has been ferocious.
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Unlike in Paris, Beirut, or even Yola and Kano, the majority of acts of mass violence attributed to the group occur in areas of Nigeria where news cameras do not roll and where hospital death records are non-existent.
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Analysis of the rates of attacks throughout the Lake Chad area reveals that the epicenter of fighting has shifted from Nigerian territory to northern Cameroon, with lesser amounts of violent attacks hitting Chad, followed by Niger’s Diffa region.