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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.
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© 2014 Emil Souleimanov and Huseyn Aliyev
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Souleimanov, E., Aliyev, H. (2014). Conceptualizing Pathways to Individual Insurgent (Dis) Engagement. In: The Individual Disengagement of Avengers, Nationalists, and Jihadists. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137498830_3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137498830_3
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