Understanding Collective Political Violence [Hardcover]

Understanding Collective Political Violence offers a unique view on contemporary processes of violent political mobilization across continents:?Africa, Latin America, South East Asia and the Middle East. It pays particular attention to unconventional combatants such as women or children and details the drivers of their violent engagement.Introduction: Individual Drivers of Collective Violence and the Dynamics of Armed Groups; Y.Guichaoua PART I: JOINING INSURGENCIES: CONTEXTS, BELIEFS AND AGENCY Militarized Youth in Western C?te d'Ivoire: Who are They? Why did They Fight?; M.C.den Hamer Political Cultures and Tuareg Mobilizations: Rebels of Niger, from Kaocen to the Mouvement des Nig?riens Pour la Justice; F.Deycard The Mobilization of Children: What's the Difference?; J.Hart Gendered Patterns of Mobilisation and Recruitment for Political Violence, Experiences from Three Latin American Countries; L.M.D.Ortega Have Gun, Will Travel: Interpreting the Trajectories of Female Irregular Combatants; L.Gayer Engendering Armed Militancy in Kashmir: Women as Perpetrators of Violence; S.Shekhawat Recruitment into Armed Groups in Colombia: A Survey of Demobilized Fighters; A.M.Arjona & S.Kalyvas PART II: THE DYNAMICS OF INSURGENT GROUPS The Dilemmas of Recruitment: The Colombian Case; F.G.Sanin Religion versus Ethnicity as a Source of Mobilisation: Are There Differences?; F.Stewart The Politics of Counter-insurgency: How did the Young Patriots Emerge in C?te d'Ivoire?; G.Kon? Circumstantial Alliances and Loose Loyalties in Rebellion Making: The Case of Tuareg Insurgency in Northern Niger (2007-2009); Y.Guichaoua Concluding Remarks; Y.GuichaouaANA M. ARJONA Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University, USA MAGALI CHELPI-DEN HAMER Research Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands FR?D?RIC DEYCARD Completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Centre of Africa Studies, University of Bordeaux, France LUISl##