Violent Non-State Actors in Africa (eBook)

Caroline Varin is Lecturer in Security and International Organizations at Regent’s University London and Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.Dauda Abubakar is Associate Professor of Political Science and African Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. 

1. IntroductionCaroline VarinPART 1: TERRORISTS2. From Sectarianism to Terrorism in Northern Nigeria: A Closer Look at Boko HaramDauda Abubakar3. Nationalist Sentiment, Terrorist Incursions and the Survival of the Malian StateJude Cocodia4. Islamic State in LibyaLarissa JaegerPART 2: REBELS5. ‘Islamist’ rebels in DRC – the Allied Democratic ForcesJesper Cullen6. The Séléka and anti-Balaka rebel movements in the Central African Republic Wendy Isaacs-Martin7. Rebel Movements in EthiopiaBerouk Mesfin8. Rebel Victory and the Rwandan GenocideJennifer MelvinPART 3: WARLORDS9. Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance ArmyJo-Ansie van Wyk10. The Revolutionary United Front, Liberian Warlords and Civil War in Sierra LeoneUsman A. Tar and Sharkdam Wapmuk11. Al-Shabaab: State Collapse, Warlords and Islamist Insurgency in SomaliaUsman A Tar and Mala Mustapha12. Pirates in West Africa and SomaliaClayton D. Allen13. ConclusionCaroline Varin