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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Conceptualizing Pathways to Individual Insurgent (Dis) Engagement
Authors : Emil Souleimanov, Huseyn Aliyev
Published in: The Individual Disengagement of Avengers, Nationalists, and Jihadists
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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This chapter constructs a conceptual framework for analyzing individual militant disengagement. Having demonstrated on examples of different militant organizations that individual members of militant groups can be conceptualized as driven by ethno-nationalist, religious, or revenge-centered motivations, it is argued in this chapter that most individual militants in Russia’s North Caucasus can be roughly divided into three main categories — avengers, nationalists, and jihadists. Based on this classification, the key argument of the book posits that pathways to individual disengagement differ in each of these three categories of militants.