Crime-Terror Continuum: The Convergence in Mozambique
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https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.4206Keywords:
Crime-Terror Continuum, Entanglement, Convergence, Terrorism, Transnational Organized Crime, MozambiqueAbstract
Within the world scenario, new non-state actors emerge, highlighting terrorist organizations, rebel groups and transnational criminal organizations, holders of force capable of destabilizing states. These same actors are coming together to act together, representing a new threat to international security. In order to better understand this dynamic, the study presents an analysis of the performance of the Islamist group Al-Shabaab, also known as Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama or ISIS-Mozambique, on the east coast of Africa, as well as its relationship with transnational illicit activities. that are conducted there. To this end, the study uses the Crime-Terror Continuum process, seeking to identify the level of involvement of the extremist group with the illicit economy existing in northern Mozambique. As a conclusion, the work presents Al-Shabaab as a hybrid organization, which uses illicit activities to finance its activities, but still maintains its motivation centered on ideological and non-economic principles, which can change in case the group succeeds in political and military control of the Cabo Delgado Region.
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