%0 Book Section
%9 OS CH : Chapitres d'ouvrages scientifiques
%A Pérouse de Montclos, Marc-Antoine
%T Emergence of Boko Haram and gradual spread of the conflict
%B Crisis and development : the lake Chad region and Boko Haram
%C Paris
%D 2018
%E Magrin, G.
%E Pérouse de Montclos, Marc-Antoine
%E Seignobos, Christian
%E Gluski, Pauline
%L fdi:010086278
%G ENG
%I AFD
%@ 978-2-37902-009-4
%K TERRORISME ; SECTE ; SYSTEME POLITIQUE ; ARMEE ; GUERRE ; RELIGION ; POUVOIR EXECUTIF ; PARTI POLITIQUE ; ISLAM ; MOUVEMENT ISLAMIQUE
%K LUTTE ANTITERRORISTE ; SECTE BOKO HARAM
%K TCHAD LAC ; NIGERIA ; CAMEROUN ; NIGER ; TCHAD
%P 117-148
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010086278
%> https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2022-11/010086278.pdf
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X Boko Haram, an Islamist sect turned armed movement, first developed in Nigeria with rear bases in neighbouring countries. In 2014-2015, the insurgents expanded their theatre of operations into Cameroon, and then into Niger and Chad, as an anti-terrorist coalition was set up. The highly fragmented group then retreated into the region's bush but continued to carry out attacks, particularly suicide bombings. Its capacity for resilience raises questions about the causes of the insurgency. Climate change is hardly a convincing explanation for the conflict, no more than is the theory of Salafist indoctrination, which has played a very marginal role in the ongoing hostilities. Nor is it an ethnic liberation front, although the majority of Boko Haram are Kanuri speakers. Given the immense poverty in the area, it is worth looking instead into the social and political conditions behind the group's emergence and radicalisation. Corruption, state dysfunctions, a brutal military crackdown, and the suffering it has caused to the civilian population are key factors behind the insurgency and its continuation.
%$ 114VIPOL ; 114RELAT ; 112RELIG ; 112HISTO