Understanding Collective Political Violence

1. Introduction: Individual Drivers of Collective Violence and the Dynamics of Armed Groups
Yvan Guichaoua

Part I. Joining Insurgencies: Contexts, Beliefs and Agency

2. Militarized Youth in Western Côte d’Ivoire: Who Are They? Why Did They Fight?
Magali Chelpi-den Hamer

3. Political Cultures and Tuareg Mobilizations: Rebels of Niger, from Kaocen to the Mouvement des Nigériens pour la Justice
Frédéric Deycard

4. The Mobilization of Children: What’s the Difference?
Jason Hart

5. Gendered Patterns of Mobilization and Recruitment for Political Violence, Experiences from Three Latin American Countries
Luisa Maria Dietrich Ortega

6. Have Gun, Will Travel: Interpreting the Trajectories of Female Irregular Combatants
Laurent Gayer

7. Engendering Armed Militancy in Kashmir: Women as Perpetrators of Violence
Seema Shekhawat

8. Recruitment into Armed Groups in Colombia: A Survey of Demobilized Fighters
Ana M. Arjona, Stathis N. Kalyvas

Part II. The Dynamics of Insurgent Groups

9. The Dilemmas of Recruitment: The Colombian Case
Francisco Gutierrez Sanin

10. Religion versus Ethnicity as a Source of Mobilization: Are There Differences?
Frances Stewart

11. The Politics of Counter-insurgency: How Did the Young Patriots Emerge in Côte d’Ivoire?
Gnangadjomon Kone

12. Circumstantial Alliances and Loose Loyalties in Rebellion Making: The Case of Tuareg Insurgency in Northern Niger (2007–2009)
Yvan Guichaoua

13. Concluding Remarks
Yvan Guichaoua

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Science, Gender Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Military and Defence Studies, Development Studies, Conflict Studies