Beyond conventional counterterrorism strategy: Prospects and challenges of community and vigilante groups’ policing in Africa
Evidences from counterterrorism and the war on terrorism operations in Africa have revealed the inadequacies of the conventional counterterrorism strategy. The over-reliance on the use of simply hard-military and offensive strategy in prosecuting the war against terrorism and forms of insurgencies i...
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| description | Evidences from counterterrorism and the war on terrorism operations in Africa have revealed the inadequacies of the conventional counterterrorism strategy. The over-reliance on the use of simply hard-military and offensive strategy in prosecuting the war against terrorism and forms of insurgencies in Africa since the inception of the war on terrorism and counterterrorism in Africa has largely been counterproductive. From Boko Haram in Nigeria to the Islamic State of West African Province in West Africa (ISWAP), to Al-Shabab in eastern parts of Africa, and then to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the rise and spike in terrorism in Africa remains indirectly proportionate to the conventional counterterrorism operations and strategy. The deficiency of the use of conventional counterterrorism strategy in the prosecution of war on terrorism in Africa, coupled with its flawed outcome, has ignited calls for alternative counterterrorism strategies. Chief amongst these alternative counterterrorism strategies is the Community and Vigilante-Group Policing in Africa which emboldens culture, language, episteme, authority, and interest of the people in quest to address the scourge of terrorism and other security threats. This article is therefore an attempt to unpack the prospects and side-effects of the Community and Vigilante-Group Policing as an alternative counterterrorism strategy in the war on terrorism in Africa |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0c59fc27fc434ca28f111aaee06392c72022-12-21T22:43:04ZdeuSzczecin University PressActa Politica Polonica2451-04322021-12-015210.18276/ap.2021.52-03Beyond conventional counterterrorism strategy: Prospects and challenges of community and vigilante groups’ policing in AfricaBolaji Omitola0Olawale Olufemi Akinrinde1Victor Fakoya2Usman Tar3Department of Political Sciences, Osun State University, NigeriaDepartment of Political Sciences, Osun State University, NigeriaDepartment of Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States of AmericaDepartment of Political Science and Defence StudiesEvidences from counterterrorism and the war on terrorism operations in Africa have revealed the inadequacies of the conventional counterterrorism strategy. The over-reliance on the use of simply hard-military and offensive strategy in prosecuting the war against terrorism and forms of insurgencies in Africa since the inception of the war on terrorism and counterterrorism in Africa has largely been counterproductive. From Boko Haram in Nigeria to the Islamic State of West African Province in West Africa (ISWAP), to Al-Shabab in eastern parts of Africa, and then to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the rise and spike in terrorism in Africa remains indirectly proportionate to the conventional counterterrorism operations and strategy. The deficiency of the use of conventional counterterrorism strategy in the prosecution of war on terrorism in Africa, coupled with its flawed outcome, has ignited calls for alternative counterterrorism strategies. Chief amongst these alternative counterterrorism strategies is the Community and Vigilante-Group Policing in Africa which emboldens culture, language, episteme, authority, and interest of the people in quest to address the scourge of terrorism and other security threats. This article is therefore an attempt to unpack the prospects and side-effects of the Community and Vigilante-Group Policing as an alternative counterterrorism strategy in the war on terrorism in Africahttps://wnus.edu.pl/ap/pl/issue/1223/article/19400/terrorismcounterterrorismconventional counterterrorism strategyCommunity and Vigilante- Group PolicingAfrica |
| spellingShingle | Bolaji Omitola Olawale Olufemi Akinrinde Victor Fakoya Usman Tar Beyond conventional counterterrorism strategy: Prospects and challenges of community and vigilante groups’ policing in Africa Acta Politica Polonica terrorism counterterrorism conventional counterterrorism strategy Community and Vigilante- Group Policing Africa |
| title | Beyond conventional counterterrorism strategy: Prospects and challenges of community and vigilante groups’ policing in Africa |
| title_full | Beyond conventional counterterrorism strategy: Prospects and challenges of community and vigilante groups’ policing in Africa |
| title_fullStr | Beyond conventional counterterrorism strategy: Prospects and challenges of community and vigilante groups’ policing in Africa |
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| title_short | Beyond conventional counterterrorism strategy: Prospects and challenges of community and vigilante groups’ policing in Africa |
| title_sort | beyond conventional counterterrorism strategy prospects and challenges of community and vigilante groups policing in africa |
| topic | terrorism counterterrorism conventional counterterrorism strategy Community and Vigilante- Group Policing Africa |
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