The Al-Qaeda Accelerant in Boko Haram's Rise

Abstract

The group known as Boko Haram made international headlines in 2014 with its audacious kidnapping raid on a girls' school in Chibok, Nigeria. The Twitter hashtag #bringbackourgirls transformed the news into a social media meme, and Boko Haram ("Western education is forbidden") briefly became a household name. But the group had existed long before its brush with social media infamy; and long after news of the Chibok girls disappeared from the headlines, the group continues to plague northern Nigeria and the Chad Lake basin countries. So who are the members of Boko Haram? What are their goals? How have they persisted?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1147705

Entities

People

  • Jacob Zenn

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Case Studies
  • Christianity
  • Civil War
  • Counterterrorism
  • Education
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Families (Human)
  • Governments
  • Intelligence Community (United States)
  • International Organizations
  • Man Borne Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Mobile Phones
  • Personnel Management
  • Social Media
  • Societies
  • Students
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Urban Areas
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • West Africa

Readers

  • International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.