Islamist Extremism in East Africa

Abstract

While Islamist extremism in East Africa is often associated with al Shabaab and Somalia, it has been expanding to varying degrees throughout the region.Militant Islamist ideology has emerged only relatively recently in East Africaimported from the Arab worldchallenging long-established norms of tolerance.Confronting Islamist extremism with heavy-handed or extrajudicial police actions is likely to backfire by inflaming real or perceived socioeconomic cleavages and exclusionist narratives used by violent extremist groups.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1016555

Entities

People

  • Abdisaid M Ali

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Africa
  • Christianity
  • East Africa
  • Education
  • European Union
  • Governments
  • Human Population
  • Human Rights
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Police
  • Security
  • Societies
  • Students
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Violence

Readers

  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.