Charity as Resistance: Connections between Charity, Contentious Politics, and Terror

Flanigan, Shawn Teresa

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“…Several authors have already focused on the use of politics, service-delivery, charity, and outreach by armed organizations as extensions of their operational art (see e.g., Flanigan, 2006;Grynkewich, 2008;Mampilly, 2015). Yet in the public imagination, these actors are all too commonly defined by what they do violently.…”

Section: Key Insights Of the Frameworkmentioning

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Violence in context: Mapping the strategies and operational art of irregular warfare

Ucko

Marks

2018

Contemporary Security Policy

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The malaise that the United States, and the West, have experienced in recent campaigns stems in large part from unclear thinking about war, its political essence, and the strategies needed to join the two. Instead, analysis and response are predicated on entrenched theoretical concepts with limited practical utility. The inadequacy of understanding has spawned new, and not so new, terms to capture unanticipated trends, starting with the re-discovery of "insurgency" and "counterinsurgency" and leading to discussion of "hybrid threats" and "gray-zone" operations. New terminology can help, but the change must go deeper. Challenging analytical orthodoxy, this article sets out a unifying approach for the study of political violence, or more accurately: violent politics. It provides a conceptual foundation that helps to make sense of recent shifts in warfare. In effect, it offers sorely needed theoretical insights into the nature of strategy and guides the process of responding to nontraditional threats. KEYWORDS Strategy; counterinsurgency; terrorism; hybrid; gray zone The United States entered the 21st century brimming with confidence at its military and strategic prowess. The campaigns of the 1990s had provided opportunities to apply emerging technologies associated with the Revolution in Military Affairs, or RMA-satellites, precision bombs, and information technology-which appeared to give Washington a qualitative edge in contemporary conflict. Under the leadership of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and with the backing of President George W. Bush, the top priority for the U.S. defense establishment at the turn of the century was to transform itself to exploit fully this cutting-edge technology. As Bush (2001) put it in a major address in February 2001: "Influence is measured in information, safety is gained in stealth, and force is projected on the long arc of precision-guided weapons … The best way to keep the peace is to redefine war on our terms." Two decades on, the limitations of America's military strength have become clear. Rather than define war on its terms, the United States has

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Section: Key Insights Of the Frameworkmentioning

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Violence in context: Mapping the strategies and operational art of irregular warfare

Ucko

Marks

2018

Contemporary Security Policy

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“…These movements have stepped in and provided basic social services such as health, welfare and education in situations where the state has failed to provide adequately for its citizens. This increased influence has in turn paved the way for increased political influence resulting, for instance, in Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Hindunationalist party BJP having been elected prime minister three times and in Hamas winning the Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006 (Knudsen 2005;Flanigan 2006). Similar strategies have been employed by organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the orthodox religious party Shas in Israel, both of them eventually gaining major political influence.…”

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“…2. Charitable work can be a way of gaining wider acceptance among groups that would otherwise not support a fundamentalist/militant cause but who become dependent on the services they provide (Flanigan 2006).…”

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Religion and Volunteering

Bellamy¹,

Leonard²

2015

Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies

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“…Service provision can also be used to secure resources from the civilian population. 12 There is obviously not a perfect relationship between service use and recruitment. Some people may use a group's services because they already sympathize with the organization or, conversely, use services without changing their minds about the movement's project.…”

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“…The organization builds and administers schools, hospitals and other welfare organizations, and provides local law enforcement and infrastructure maintenance, some of the latter through its in-house construction company, Jihad al Binaa. 50 All of these services are connected and administered through a central bureaucracy, which has in and of itself increased the organization's reputation for competence, fairness and honesty. And, indeed, these tactics have produced a strong norm of support for Hezbollah in the Shiite community.…”

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Hezbollah's Survival: Resources and Relationships

Szekely

2012

Middle East Policy

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Charity as Resistance: Connections between Charity, Contentious Politics, and Terror

Cited by 33 publications

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Violence in context: Mapping the strategies and operational art of irregular warfare

Violence in context: Mapping the strategies and operational art of irregular warfare

Religion and Volunteering

Hezbollah's Survival: Resources and Relationships

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