Global Jihadi Movement

Tracking the Violent Extremism Spillover from the Sahel to Littoral West Africa

ZFTWARNING — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:24:27 +0000

Tracking the Violent Extremism Spillover from the Sahel to Littoral West Africa

Tracking the Violent Extremism Spillover from the Sahel to Littoral West Africa

A recent analytical report by Aneliese Bernard, summarized in an article for the Irregular Warfare Initiative at the Modern War Institute at West Point, details the expansion of violent extremism from West Africa's Sahel region into the Littoral states on the Gulf of Guinea. For a full copy of the report, please contact aneliese@elva.org.

The report offers a comprehensive analysis of the situation in the border communities of this region, focused on Littoral states that are experiencing nascent violent extremist influence and operation campaigns. In addition to in-depth analysis, the report offers a variety of recommendations on how to combat this growing insurgency from the defense, diplomacy and development lens. The report draws from hundreds of expert interviews and three rounds of mixed-method data collection that took place over 12 months, in over 300 border communities in Burkina Faso, Niger, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin.

Source: Aneliese Bernard, “Jihadism is Spreading to the Gulf of Guinea Littoral States, and a New Approach to Countering it is Needed.” Modern War Institute. 9 September 2021.

ZFTWARNING Tue, 09/14/2021 - 8:24pm

The Appearance of Three New Radical Islamist English-Language Online Magazines: Al Risalah, One Ummah & Voice of Hind

ZFTWARNING — Sun, 10 May 2020 19:26:40 +0000

The Appearance of Three New Radical Islamist English-Language Online Magazines: Al Risalah, One Ummah & Voice of Hind ZFTWARNING Sun, 05/10/2020 - 3:26pm

This research note provides an update concerning new radical Islamist English-language online magazines appearing since the ebook publication of The Islamic State English-Language Online Magazine Rumiyah (Rome).

A Man, A Plan, So What? The Influence of Abu Mus’ab al-Suri, Reconsidered

SWJED — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:36:43 +0000

A Man, A Plan, So What? The Influence of Abu Mus’ab al-Suri, Reconsidered SWJED Tue, 07/09/2019 - 1:36am

Despite al-Suri’s reputation, however, questions exist about the relevance of his work, and jihadi strategic thought as a whole. Broadly, the relevance of jihadi strategic thought is unclear. Some note its potential to enable clearer understandings of jihadi behaviour.

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Treating Islamic Violent Extremism as a Pandemic Super-Infection: Inverse Darwinist Operations Line of Operation Explained

SWJED — Wed, 31 May 2017 14:34:15 +0000

Treating Islamic Violent Extremism as a Pandemic Super-Infection: Inverse Darwinist Operations Line of Operation Explained SWJED Wed, 05/31/2017 - 10:34am

A continuation of SWJ article “Treating Islamic Violent Extremism as a Pandemic Super-infection”.