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Author:   Anneli Botha
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9781498523318

ISBN 10:   1498523315
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   02 November 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Introduction to Terrorism in Uganda Chapter 3: Introduction to Terrorism in Kenya Chapter 4: Individual Characteristics and Political Socialization Chapter 5: Establishing a Political Identity Chapter 6: Role of the Family and School as Political Socialization Agents Chapter 7: Role of Peers, Groups and the Media as Political Socialization Agents Chapter 8: The External Environment and Political Socialization and Radicalization Chapter 9: Explaining Radicalization within the Political Socialization Framework Chapter 10: Interpretive Overview

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This is an outstanding study providing insights on radicalization in Kenya and Uganda from an individual perspective, whilst at the same time cognizant of the external conditions shaping the processes of radicalization. Incredibly detailed, empirically grounded on hundreds of interviews and anchored by voluminous secondary sources, this book is a must read for academics and policy-makers seeking to understand processes of radicalization as they attempt to end the scourge of terrorism. -- Hussein Solomon, University of the Free State The jury of the Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI), an international consortium of institutes in the field of security studies, awarded Anneli Botha with the prize for the 'Best Ph.D. Thesis in the Field of Terrorism Studies of the Year 2014'. I am delighted to see that her path-breaking research is now becoming available to a wider public. It goes a long way to answer the anguished question of a mother that triggered Dr. Botha's study: why did one of my sons become a terrorist while the other became a policeman? -- Alex P. Schmid, Terrorism Research Initiative, Vienna Two pressing questions inform this study: To what extent can political socialization explain the participation of individuals in terrorist organizations in Kenya and Uganda; and is there a difference in the applicable factors between the divergent ideological frameworks of the Allied Democratic Forces and the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, and al-Shabaab and the Mombasa Republican Council in Kenya? Drawing on 285 interviews with members of these four organizations and the families of al-Shabaab members who had been killed or incarcerated, or who had disappeared in Kenya, Anneli Botha adds important and insightful perspectives to the existing knowledge base on the drivers underlying violent radicalization and terrorism in the eastern parts of the African continent. -- Theodor Neethling, University of the Free State

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Anneli Botha is a research associate of political studies and governance at the University of the Free State.

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