Boko Haram : Nigeria's Islamist insurgency /
"Northern and central Nigeria have been engulfed in a violent insurgency campaign waged by Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'awati w'al Jihad, a.k.a. 'Boko Haram', and for a time, its splinter group 'Ansaru'. From its inception an inward-looking, almost parochial,...
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London :
Hurst & Company,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Research challenges
- 2. Islam in Nigeria: Historical Background
- Usman Dan Fodio's Jihad
- The British colonial era
- The path to Sharia
- Some reflections on religious identity
- 3. The Genesis of Radical Groups
- Splintering
- Transformation
- Reform (modernisation)
- Formation (creation)
- Daawa
- Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah, Ja'amutu Tajidmul Islami/Islamic Movement of Nigeria[IMN]
- Yan Izala
- Maitatsine
- Conclusion
- 4. What is Boko Haram?
- Where it all started
- The sect goes underground
- The 2009 turning point
- Dead or alive?
- Post-Yusuf
- The Shakau era-the beginning of the insurgency
- Splintering, factionalisation and kidnappings
- Suicide attacks
- Who are these men?
- Funding
- 5. The Internationalisation of Boko Haram
- Borderlands
- Cameroon
- Niger
- Chad
- Human security implications
- A wild card: the Central African Republic (CAR)
- Changing al-Qaeda patterns and Boko Haram's position in the broader Islamist environment
- The 2012-13 Malian civil conflict
- Al-Shabaab
- Tactical implications of foreign influence
- Will Boko Haram become the next al-Qaeda franchise?
- 6. Government Responses
- The military response
- A first state of emergency is declared
- Between two emergencies
- Negotiations and amnesty
- A second state of emergency is put in place
- Moving beyond JTF ORO
- Allegations of human rights abuses
- A softer approach
- COIN vs CT: What strategy?
- Western response
- The United States (US)
- The United Kingdom (UK)
- Canada
- 7. Conclusions
- The Way Ahead?.