Al-Shabaab's leadership hierarchy and its ideology
This research studies the deriving ideology and directions of al-Shabaab movement. The organization constitutes obdurate and dogmatic elements and individuals of originally Somali’s Salafi movements. The initial findings of this research are that al-Shabaab’s ideology must have originated outside...
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| Language: | English |
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SAVAP International
2012
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/29678/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/29678/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/29678/1/al-Shabab-_Academic_Research_International-January_20122012%282.1-32%29.pdf |
| Summary: | This research studies the deriving ideology and directions of al-Shabaab movement. The organization
constitutes obdurate and dogmatic elements and individuals of originally Somali’s Salafi movements.
The initial findings of this research are that al-Shabaab’s ideology must have originated outside
Somalia. The key objective of this research is to investigate al-Shabaab’s political ideology and its
structural leadership, to assess the ideological relationship between al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda, to
comprehend the political future of the group and to ascertain their political and theological
ideologies. The research therefore investigates the leadership structure of al-Shabaab and its
organizational settings. The methodology of this research, partly, involved collecting field data in a
form of informal interviews and surveys, but it is mainly an analytical and evaluative approach. My
findings indicate that al-Shabaab operate in a flexible multiple cells organizational leadership
structure whose components are independent. |
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