A CTS model of counterterrorism

Lindahl, Sondre

doi:10.1080/17539153.2017.1336289

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“…Likewise, mainstreaming decolonial analysis in CTS also helps to acknowledge some culpabilities associated with traditional studies that link the bulging youth population in Africa to the direct risk of terrorism. On the contrary, existing evidence from the literature (Calhoun 2016;Cuadro 2020;Lindahl 2016) shows that, in many countries, most youth are not necessarily terrorists, despite their different contextual challenges. Hence, even if counterterrorism programmes never existed, many youths are still unlikely to join extremist groups (Sommers 2019), which gives the impression that such programmes may have ulterior motives.…”

Section: Decolonial Discourse and Prospects For Reimaging Ctsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Reimaging Subjugated Voice in Africa: A Battle for Hearts and Minds in Terrorism Studies

Oando,

Ilyas

2024

Social Sciences

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A rare consensus points to the question of normativity, with an inclination towards the Eurocentric Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, which seems to have been central to Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS). Given the universality of knowledge exerting pressure on scholars to conform with traditional theoretical perspectives, terrorism studies pose inequality from Eurocentricity emerging in “the battle for hearts and minds” research. Some of these studies fall to the allure of connivance with the progressively “authoritarian demands of Western, liberal state and media practice”. Consequently, terrorism research risks being dominated by ethical and logical blindness within established research formations. In Africa, for example, some CTS scholars are subdued to cynically use their Africanity to authenticate the neo-colonial and neo-liberal agenda in terrorism research. This article explores the reimaging of subjugated knowledge through decolonisation of methods in CTS. Rooting for cognitive justice and adequate space for alternative knowledge to imperial science, the article contests the battle for Africa’s hearts and minds as a failed process that needs transformation. Consequently, this work is a contribution to epistemological debate between the global North and South, and the subsequent theoretical contestations in CTS. We argue for hybridity by re-constructing alternative frameworks of knowledge production.

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Section: Decolonial Discourse and Prospects For Reimaging Ctsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Reimaging Subjugated Voice in Africa: A Battle for Hearts and Minds in Terrorism Studies

Oando,

Ilyas

2024

Social Sciences

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“…As a guiding framework, the researcher used the Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) modela critique of contemporary counter-terrorism, which 'plays a big role in contemporary human suffering.' 15 According to Sondre Lindahl in, 'A CTS Model of Counterterrorism,' contemporary counter-terrorism initiatives are violent in nature since they privilege the use of hard power or militaristic approaches such as targeted assassinations, use of torture, rendition, kidnapping, ethnic profiling, or employing paramilitary-type operatives to wage 'dirty war'. The result is the perpetuation of terrorism including 'state violence', and failure to address the factors that cause terrorism.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Consequently, Lindahl proposes a CTS Model that deals with terrorism using 'soft' non-violent and proactive approaches and that respects and maintains human rights. 16 Doug Stokes in 'Ideas and Avocados: Ontologising Critical Terrorism Studies,' notes that CTS, 'seeks to offer an epistemological critique of [contemporary] problem-solving terrorism studies,' 17 and, to highlight how silent those problem-solving terrorism studies have been with regard to the roles that liberal democracies have played in committing acts of both state and non-state terrorism. 18 CTS, belongs to the Post-Positivist School that recognises the study of reality as being biased and conjectural, that is, it is based on opinions or conclusions that are formed on the basis of incomplete information.…”

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Is counter-terrorism counterproductive? A case study of Kenya’s response to terrorism, 1998-2020

Kamau

2021

South African Journal of International Affairs

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Kenya is a victim of transnational terrorism. As a response, the government in Nairobi has adopted numerous measures including legislation, the establishment of security organs to police the menace, building a border wall between Kenya and Somalia, attempts to repeal the 2006 Refugee Act and close refugee camps, efforts to prevent and counter violent extremism, and community policing. However, in spite of these activities, acts of terror and violent extremism continue to pose a threat to Kenya's national security, which begs the question, 'Is counterterrorism as practised by Kenya counterproductive? The Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) model guides this study. The analysis concludes that terrorism will remain a concern for Kenya as long as there is failure to appropriately calibrate its counter-terrorism strategy, and as long as regional sources of terrorism, such as instability in Somalia, remain unaddressed.

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“…For many of the same reasons as set forth by Toros, I argued that emancipation should be at the centre of the research agenda, and that states are not excluded as potential locations or drivers for emancipatory policies and actions. Working from this foundation, I attempted to construct a model of counterterrorism based on CTS scholarship to explore the reconstructive potential, and use this model to analyse Norway's approach to counterterrorism (Lindahl 2017(Lindahl , 2018. The initial analysis showed that Norway did engage in actions and policies, such as negotiations and conflict resolution, which could be described as having emancipatory potential.…”

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The end of emancipation? CTS and normativity

Lindahl

2019

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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Although CTS can be described as a broad church, scholars working within this approach want to produce knowledge which can help shape, improve, change, or replace contemporary counterterrorism. Guided by Marx's mantra that the point of theory is not only to interpret the world but to change it, CTS has since its inception challenged the status quo of contemporary counterterrorism on the basis that it is possible to conduct counterterrorism differently, more humanly, and, put plainly, better. The concept of emancipation was identified early on as the foundation and basis for knowledge. However, a deeper debate on emancipation has largely been absent since 2010. Could it be that CTS exhausted the debate on one of its core commitments only five years into its existence? Have we reached the end of emancipation? Or could it be that emancipation is not that attractive at all for CTS and its normative projects? This article begins with a review and a state-of-theart discussion of emancipation within CTS. While it might be the end of emancipation in its traditional conceptualisation, the article argues that emancipation can be retained as the basis for normative theorising and action within CTS when reconceptualised as a Weberian value-axiom. The article concludes by exploring a transfiguration of the concept of emancipation itself.

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A CTS model of counterterrorism

Cited by 13 publications

References 30 publications

Reimaging Subjugated Voice in Africa: A Battle for Hearts and Minds in Terrorism Studies

Reimaging Subjugated Voice in Africa: A Battle for Hearts and Minds in Terrorism Studies

Is counter-terrorism counterproductive? A case study of Kenya’s response to terrorism, 1998-2020

The end of emancipation? CTS and normativity

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