{"id":5554,"date":"2023-08-07T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T12:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=5554"},"modified":"2023-08-07T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T12:49:43","slug":"report-al-shabab-and-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/08\/07\/report-al-shabab-and-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: al-Shabab and civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New and noted: <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/628c94ceae15ed6eb64d03fd\/t\/64c90304a297960fa71d35ca\/1690895113046\/Mubarak%2C+Jackson+2023+Playing+the+Long+Game.pdf\">Mohamed Mubarak and Ashley Jackson, ODI, Playing the long game\u2009: Exploring the relationship between Al-Shabab and civilians in areas beyond state control, August 2023, PDF<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As with many non-state armed groups, Al-Shabab\u2019s relationship with civilians has been essential to its resilience and staying power. This report examines how the dynamics between Al-Shabab and civilians have differed and why, in three areas of prolonged Al-Shabab control (Adan Yabal, Moqokori and Jilib). This report is based on in-depth research inside Somalia, including 70 interviews with businesspeople, government officials, elders, aid workers and supporters of Al-Shabab.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve added this to my Reading List.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New and noted: Mohamed Mubarak and Ashley Jackson, ODI, Playing the long game\u2009: Exploring the relationship between Al-Shabab and civilians in areas beyond state control, August 2023, PDF &#8220;As with many non-state armed groups, Al-Shabab\u2019s relationship with civilians has been essential to its resilience and staying power. This report examines how the dynamics between Al-Shabab&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[601],"tags":[374,89,602],"class_list":["post-5554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-shabab","tag-al-shabab","tag-research","tag-somalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5555,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554\/revisions\/5555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}