All content about Insurgencies

• Are UN Peacekeeping Missions Moving Toward "Chapter Seven and a Half Operations"?

  Publication : ARTIKKEL_POP | 2018

  • John Karlsrud

  The combined effect of the inclusion of regional ad hoc coalitions with a strong orientation towards counter-insurgency and counterterrorism is the c1

  

• The future of peace in Africa

  9 Mar 2016

  • Ane Teksum Isbrekken

  Africa does not need saviors, but partners, according to Cedric de Coning and John Karlsrud, co-editors of the recent book ‘The Future of Afric1

  Peace operations  Africa  International organizations  Conflict  Insurgencies  United Nations  AU

  

• Protecting governments from insurgencies: the DRC and Mali

  Publication | 2017

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

  

• To engage or not engage? Libyan Salafis and state institutions

  Publication | 2019

  At the beginning of the recent escalation of hostilities in Libya in April 2019, one of the key questions posed was what role, if any, qu1

  

• Mali's Religious Leaders and the 2018 Presidential Elections

  Publication | 2019

  • Morten Bøås

  Mali is by constitution a secular state, but here as elsewhere in the Sahel the role of religious leaders is increasing both in the social and the po1

  

• New war zones or evolving modes of insurgency warfare?

  Publication | 2018

  • Morten Bøås

  This chapter argues that new war zones are neither substantially new nor incomprehensible. It is only our approaches that all too often make us avoid1