The central focus of this book is a small but vitally important
group of movements that constitute a distinct 'fifth wave' of
modern terrorism, here called the "New Tribalism."
Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism examines a collection of
terrorist or insurgent movements whose similarity in tactics,
strategic vision and desire to radically reshape their worlds to
conform with a 'Golden Age' dream of perfection which is to be
achieved through a genocidal or ethnic cleansing process to make
way for the emergence of a new, radically perfected tribal utopia
in a single generation. These shared strategic and tactical factors
allow them to be examined through a comparative lens as a distinct
'fifth wave' of modern terrorism. Structured around the theoretical
framework of David Rapoport's Four Waves thesis, the book examines
anomalous movements that began within a distinct wave of
international terrorism, but, following a crisis model, has turned
inwards toward radical localism, tribalism and xenophobia.
The text is divided between theory and in depth case studies of
the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army and the Sudanese Janjaweed. It
concludes with a design for further, field-work based research.
This book will be of interest to students of Terrorism and
Political Violence, Genocide, Conflict Studies, African politics
and Political Science in general.
Jeffrey Kaplan is an Associate Professor of Religion and the
Director of the Institute for the Study of Religion, Violence and
Memory at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He is the author of
11 books on terrorism and political violence.
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