All content about Insurgencies

• “Irregular” Migration and Divergent Understandings of Security in the Sahel

  Publication : Popular scientific article | 2020

  • Kari M. Osland
  • Henriette Ullavik Erstad

  On 23 September 2020, the EU launched its new Pact on Migration and Asylum. In a refreshingly blunt press-release accompanying the Pact one could rea1

  

• Islamic Insurgents in the MENA Region. Global Threat or Regional Menace?

  Publication : NUPI Working Paper | 2019

  • Kari M. Osland
  • Morten Bøås
  • Henriette Ullavik Erstad

  This working paper analyses a broad range of Islamic insurgents, spanning from the Sahel and North Africa to the Middle East, examining the threat th1

  

• The “Faceless Evildoers” of Cabo Delgado: an Islamist Insurgency in Mozambique?

  Publication : Report | 2020

  A brief assessment about the emergence of a jihadi group in Mozambique

  

• Exclusion and Inclusion: The Core of Chechen Mobilization to Jihad

  Publication : Academic article | 2020

  • Julie Wilhelmsen

  The article explores the broad social and relational drivers behind mobilization of Chechens into armed jihad in the Levant. It suggests that the cor1

  

• Russian Governance of the North Caucasus: Dilemmas of force and inclusion

  Publication | 2019

  • Julie Wilhelmsen

  While Vladimir Putin’s Russia struggles to strike a balance between security and freedom within the Russian polity, nowhere is the problem as acute a1

  

• Stater og transnasjonale motstandsnettverk: Irans mobilisering av irakiske sjiamilitser etter 1979

  Publication : Academic article | 2019

  • Henriette Ullavik Erstad

  The Islamic Republic of Iran has been building a transnational network of Shi’a militias since 1979, commonly referred to as its asymmetric warfare c1

  

• Should I stay or should I go? Security considerations for members leaving al-Shabaab in Somalia

  Publication : NUPI Policy Brief | 2019

  • Ingvild Magnæs Gjelsvik

  The Somali jihadi organization al-Shabaab, yet again featured in the news internationally when they attacked a business and hotel complex in Nairobi1

  

• Protection of civilians in the absence of peace agreements: Darfur, Chad/CAR, and Côte d’Ivoire

  Publication | 2017

  • John Karlsrud
  • Ingvild Magnæs Gjelsvik

  This edited volume offers a thorough review of peacekeeping theory and reality in contemporary contexts, and aligns the two to help inform practice.1

  

• Disengaging from violent extremism: The case of al-Shabaab in Somalia

  Publication : ARTIKKEL | 2019

  • Ingvild Magnæs Gjelsvik

  Disengagement, rehabilitation and reintegration for members of violent extremist groups during ongoing conflict is a tricky matter. Disarmament, Demo1

  

• Women and the Katiba Macina in Central Mali

  Publication | 2019

  • Natasja Rupesinghe

  This policy brief examines the local rule of the Katiba Macina from a gender perspective and addresses the question of women’s participation in the i1