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In preparation for RESOLVE's Global Annual Forum on September 27, 2017, the RESOLVE Network team’s “What We’re Reading” post for September features key publications related to each of our Forum panels.  

The Forum will feature preeminent international scholars and experts from across the Network’s 20-plus partner organizations around the world. In addition to offering opportunities to connect with leading thinkers, practitioners and policymakers involved in developing responses to violent extremism, the day of panels and roundtable discussions will highlight findings from a year-long study on the rise of violent extremism in Bangladesh and preview upcoming research on the politics of religion in the Lake Chad Basin region.

Panelists will address questions including what do we know about how and when terrorists decide to enter and exit violence, and how do the politics of religion, migration, and identity factor into efforts to counter violent extremism?

 

Click on the links below to view the documents and register for the Forum today!

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Panel | After Raqqa: Responding to the Next Wave of Violent Extremism in a New Era 

• Abdo, Geneive. “The New Sectarianism: The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi’a-Sunni Divide.” April 2013. Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-new-sectarianism-the-arab-uprisings-and-the-rebirth-of-the-shia-sunni-divide/
• Aziz, Sahar F. "Rethinking Counterterrorism in the Age of ISIS." Nebraska Law Review (2016). https://works.bepress.com/sahar_aziz/84/
• Soufan, Ali. 2017. Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Anatomy-of-Terror/

 

Panel | Entering and Exiting Violence 

• Holmer, Georgia, and Adrian Shtuni. “Returning Foreign Fighters and the Reintegration Imperative.” March 2017. U.S. Institute of Peace. https://www.usip.org/publications/2017/03/returning-foreign-fighters-and-reintegration-imperative
• Horgan, John G., Max Taylor, Mia Bloom, and Charlie Winter. “From Cubs to Lions: A Six Stage Model of Child Socialization into the Islamic State.” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (2016). http://pelg.ucsd.edu/9.horgan_etal_ISIS.pdf
• Sageman, Marc. 2017. Turning to Political Violence: The Emergence of Terrorism. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15638.html

 

Panel | The Demographics of Discontent: Identity, Migration, and Social Dislocation

• “Molenbeek and Violent Radicalization: ‘A Social Mapping.’” European Institute of Peace. June 2017. https://view.publitas.com/eip/eip-molenbeek-report-16-06/page/1
• “National Dialogue and Social Contract.” April 2017. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS). http://pakpips.com/downloads/PB_CVE3_National_Dialogue.pdf,
• Pearson, Elizabeth, and Emily Winterbotham. “Women, Gender and Daesh Radicalisation.” The RUSI Journal 162, no. 3 (2017): 60-72. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03071847.2017.1353251?needAccess=true
• Yalçinkaya, Haldun. “Foreign Fighters of ISIS and their Security Threat: The Experience of Turkey (2014-2016).” June 2017. Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM). http://www.orsam.org.tr/files/Raporlar/210/210eng.pdf

 

Panel | Filling the Vacuum: Insecurity, Governance Gaps, and Extremism

• Gaston, Erica, and András Derzsi-Horváth. “Iraq after ISIL: An Analysis of Local, Hybrid, and Sub-State Security Forces.” August 2017. Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi). http://www.gppi.net/publications/iraq-after-isil-an-analysis-of-local-regional-and-sub-state-security-forces/
• Gul, Imtiaz. 2010. The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier. New York: Penguin. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/178838/the-most-dangerous-place/
• Murray, Rebecca: “Southern Libya Destabilized: The Case of Ubari.” April 2017. Small Arms Survey. http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/T-Briefing-Papers/SAS-SANA-BP-Ubari.pdf
• Ngari, Allan, and Denys Reva. "How Ethnic and Religious Discrimination Drive Violent Extremism.” September 2017. Institute for Security Studies. https://issafrica.org/research/africa-in-the-world-report/how-ethnic-and-religious-discrimination-drive-violent-extremism

 

Panel | The Politics of Religion in the Lake Chad Basin 

• “Journey to Extremism in Africa: Drivers, Incentives and the Tipping Point for Recruitment.” 2017. United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Africa. http://www.africa.undp.org/content/rba/en/home/library/reports/journey-to-extremism-.html
• Campbell, John. “What Makes Boko Haram Run?” May 2016. Council on Foreign Relations. https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/what-makes-boko-haram-run
• Kwaja, Chris. “Nigeria’s Pernicious Drivers of Ethno-Religious Conflict.” July 2011. Africa Security Brief. http://africacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ACSS-Africa-Security-Brief-No.-14-EN.pdf
• Yahaya Ibrahim, Ibrahim. “The Wave of Jihadist Insurgency in West Africa: Global Ideology, Local Context, Individual Motivations.” July 2017. OECD Publishing. http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/the-wave-of-jihadist-insurgency-in-west-africa_eb95c0a9-en

 

Panel | Bangladesh on the Brink: Surveying the Evolving Geography of Political Violence 

• Please stay tuned for the release of RESOLVE Network Bangladesh Series publications.

 

Panel | Bangladesh on the Brink: Community, Secularism, and Religion 

• Please stay tuned for the release of RESOLVE Network Bangladesh Series publications.