Understanding Collective Political Violence

Chapter 1 Introduction: Individual Drivers of Collective Violence and the Dynamics of Armed Groups

Chapter 2 Militarized Youth in Western Côte d’Ivoire: Who Are They? Why Did They Fight?

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

Chapter 4 The Mobilization of Children: What’s the Difference?

Chapter 5 Gendered Patterns of Mobilization and Recruitment for Political Violence, Experiences from Three Latin American Countries

Chapter 6 Have Gun, Will Travel: Interpreting the Trajectories of Female Irregular Combatants

Chapter 7 Engendering Armed Militancy in Kashmir: Women as Perpetrators of Violence

Chapter 8 Recruitment into Armed Groups in Colombia: A Survey of Demobilized Fighters

Chapter 9 The Dilemmas of Recruitment: The Colombian Case

Chapter 10 Religion versus Ethnicity as a Source of Mobilization: Are There Differences?

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

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

Chapter 13 Concluding Remarks