Transforming violent political movements : rebels today, what tomorrow?

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Author:

Grisham, Kevin E., 1973- author.

ISBN:

9780415730198

Personal Author:

Grisham, Kevin E., 1973- author.

Physical Description:

xx, 214 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Contemporary terrorism studies

Contemporary terrorism studies.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.The transformation of conflict -- Introduction -- Outline of work -- Implications of research -- 2.The violent rebellious movement and its possible outcomes -- Why is defining necessary? -- One man's guerrilla fighter, another man's terrorist -- The problematic nature of defining "terrorism" -- Political party and criminal organization -- Conclusion -- 3.The collective political violence transformative model -- Processes, mechanisms, and transformation -- The components and construction of the CPVT model -- Assumptions, interactions, and outcomes -- Conclusion -- 4.The methodological approach -- Development of guerrilla movement dataset -- Case selection approach -- Cases selected -- Approaches to data collection -- Process tracing and its application -- Comparison amongst the cases: an adjustment -- Conclusion -- 5.Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- FARC-EP: a historical overview --

Contents note continued: FARC-EP and changes to its belief system and associated frames -- Conclusion -- 6.The Abu Sayyaf Group -- Preconditions to militancy in the Philippines -- Moro Islamic Liberation Front: militancy by Islamists -- The early years of the Abu Sayyaf Group -- The death of a leader and its aftermath -- Abu Sayyaf today -- The ASG: mechanisms and processes of transformation -- Conclusion -- 7.Provisional Irish Republican Army/Sinn Fein -- The early years of the struggles -- The bloody events of the 1970s and 1980s -- The change in approaches by the PIRA and Sinn Fein -- A lasting peace in Northern Ireland? -- A meeting of minds and the future of the conflict -- Good Friday Agreement, decommissioning, and a different future for Northern Ireland -- PIRA/SF: mechanisms and processes of transformation -- Conclusion -- 8.Spear of the Nation/African National Congress -- A system of African marginalization -- The growth of the political struggle (1910-48) --

Contents note continued: The development of a new ANC (1948-60) -- The beginning of the armed struggle of MK -- Saboteurs begin - the early days of the armed struggle -- The transformation of the ANC and MK -- Post-apartheid South Africa and the ANC and MK -- A move toward transitional peace in South Africa -- MK/ANC: mechanisms and processes of transformation -- Conclusion -- 9.The future of the study of transformation -- Alternative variables - leadership -- Alternative variables - measurement of resource needs -- Alternative variables - issue of rhetoric -- Questions raised by this study -- Future expansion of the research project -- Conclusion.

Abstract:

"This book explores the factors that influence violent rebellious political organisations to transform into other entities, such as political parties, criminal organisations and terrorist organisations. From the end of the Second World War until 1990, many events in the world centred on the bipolar struggle between the United States and the USSR. Although there were numerous civil wars occurring during the Cold War era, many of these conflicts went virtually unnoticed unless they were linked to the Cold War struggle for ideological dominance. In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, the number of intra-state conflicts was prevalent around the globe. Along with the occurrence of civil wars, a variety of violent political movements also developed. Examining cases from Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia, this book addresses how violent political movements transform during and after conflict into new types of organisations using the collective political violence transformative (CPVT) model. The study uses a combination of pre-existing literature from the fields of sociology and political science, archival research, and interviews with movement members (former and active) conducted by the author. In studying the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein, the Spear of the Nation (MK) and the African National Congress (ANC), the Abu Sayyaf Group and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP), Transforming Violent Political Movements paints a picture of organisations that have to respond to their environments to survive. This book will be of much interest to students of political violence, terrorism, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR"--

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This book explores the factors that influence violent rebellious political organisations to transform into other entities, such as political parties, criminal organisations and terrorist organisations.

From the end of the Second World War until 1990, many events in the world centred on the bipolar struggle between the United States and the USSR. Although there were numerous civil wars occurring during the Cold War era, many of these conflicts went virtually unnoticed unless they were linked to the Cold War struggle for ideological dominance. In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, the number of intra-state conflicts was prevalent around the globe. Along with the occurrence of civil wars, a variety of violent political movements also developed.

Examining cases from Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia, this book addresses how violent political movements transform during and after conflict into new types of organisations using the collective political violence transformative (CPVT) model. The study uses a combination of pre-existing literature from the fields of sociology and political science, archival research, and interviews with movement members (former and active) conducted by the author. In studying the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin, the Spear of the Nation (MK) and the African National Congress (ANC), the Abu Sayyaf Group and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP), Transforming Violent Political Movements paints a picture of organisations that have to respond to their environments to survive.

This book will be of much interest to students of political violence, terrorism, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR.