In society, rebel groups are socially constructed as violent groups seeking political change in the government of a country. The motives for rebel groups are for social, religious and political inclusion of their ideas in the government. In the Western Hemisphere, developed nations are concerned about rebel groups in developing nations, especially located in the Middle East. Middle Eastern rebel groups, such as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are notoriously known as Islamic extremists because of their radical beliefs against Western society. The constant threats of global terrorism by the rebel groups drives fear among the western world. Events that have affected Western societies by Islamic extremists are September 11th attacks and the Paris attacks. However, it is not only the Islamic extremists in the Middle East that are the most threatening to the world, but rebels groups in Africa cause several casualties …show more content…
It is important to care about Africa because it is the most forgotten continent by the Western world. Africa doesn’t have the same impact as the Middle East with western society’s dependence of natural resources, such as oil and minerals. It does not escape the issue that several African rebel groups severely abuse women and children, forcing them to become child soldiers and raped at young ages. Several of human right abuses caused by the rebel groups go unpunished. In order to gain attention by the government, the rebels control territories in resource-rich areas in return gain more power and rise to destabilize the order of the state.. Rebels have strategic goals in gaining attention by increasing their value in natural resources as rebels, to increase their influential value of capturing the state (Humphrey, 2005). The question that appeals to many researchers is how do rebel groups’ resources affect the government response to their
There was a war in Sierra Leone, Africa, from 1991 to 2002 where a rebel army stormed through African villages amputating and raping citizens left and right (“Sierra Leone Profile”). Adebunmi Savage, a former citizen of Sierra Leone, describes the reality of this civil war: In 1996 the war in Sierra Leone was becoming a horrific catastrophe. Children were recruited to be soldiers, families were murdered, death came easily, and staying alive was a privilege. Torture became the favorite pastime of the Revolutionary United Front rebel movement, which was against the citizens who supported Sierra Leone’s president, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.
One of the major themes that are presented throughout the whole entire movie is the dysfunctional relationship between one of the characters and their fathers. The movie portrays father figures as problematic which then shape the actions and the characters themselves as the movie progresses. We can see all three dynamics of the father figure presented through Jim, Judy, and Plato. Through Jim, the father figure that he is presented with is a father who is weak allows himself to be walked on by Jim¡¯s mother and grandmother. Judy¡¯s father, on the other hand, is quite the opposite of Jim¡¯s father in that he is the overbearing, masculine, and insensitive. Lastly, we see the absence of a father figure in the life of Plato which completes the list from all three sides.
Rebel Without a Cause is an unconventional story with a conventional, classical approach to storytelling. The film follows the seven traits of Classical Hollywood Cinema and is adapted to the hybridization of film noir, which was primarily a style of B movies, and teen drama films, which was newly emerging in the 50s.
Organizing Insurgency by Paul Staniland, introduces the question, “Do resources like diamonds, drugs, and state sponsors turn insurgent groups into thuggish people or do they help build a more disciplined organization?” The reason this question is asked is because in some cases it suggests that “resource wealth encourages the degeneration of armed groups into greed and criminality” and other evidence shows that “external sponsorship and criminal activity can help leaders build organizations in the face of state repression” (p.142). This question is being presented because with different insurgent groups like the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and the Hizbul Mujahidden, having very similar interactions with state sponsors, could have very different outcomes determining the fate of the insurgency. In looking at insurgent groups and how they operate, we are able to learn how some groups prosper while other groups fall apart.
Brassy fanfares, sweet flute melodies, and intense strings. These are the types of music that are used in the film “Rebel Without a Cause”. This film was released in 1955. James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo star as the lead characters of Jim Stark, Judy, and John "Plato" Crawford. The orchestra music for “Rebel Without a Cause” serves three functions: it reflects the emotions of the teens, it acts as element of the mise-en-scène, and it causes the audience to feel a particular emotion.
Orogun, P. (2004). "Blood diamonds" and Africa's armed conflicts in the post—cold war era. World Affairs, 166(3), 151-161. doi:10.3200/WAFS.166.3.151-161
For decades, Uganda’s economy has suffered through disappointing economic policies and instabilities. These setbacks have been put forth by a chronically unreliable government, leaving it as one of the world’s poorest countries. Uganda’s weak infrastructure and corrupt government are two of the primary constraints against a continuation of economic growth. Uganda has ongoing military involvement in the War on Congo, wrongly taking money from the already deprived country and into the war. Many villages in Uganda also have to waste their precious money and time in pursuit of hiding places. They are faced with a group known as, The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). LRA is infamous for their twenty years of massacre and slaughter in Uganda, causing an estimated 1.5 million internally displayed persons. Several people are questioning why the LRA is still terrorizing the country and criticizing the government’s commitment to putting an end this horrific group. The Inspector General of Government (IGG) ...
After reading several documents written by Gardiner, Campbell, Sita Ram, Sayyid Khan, and Coohill, the main cause of the Sepoy Rebellion was that many Indians felt suspicious that the British were trying to undermine Indian traditions/society and replace it with their own.
In today’s world there are over a hundred rebel groups. Many of them are in foreign countries such as Afghanistan, Brazil, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Angola and Africa. Currently, there are approximately 300,000 child soldiers; roughly 40% are in Africa to sustain ongoing conflicts. Africa’s rebel groups are responsible for over 10,000 murders and for the abduction of more than 24,000 children in Uganda (Wessells, p. 363). One of the world’s most notorious rebel groups is armed with children and is run by a very dangerous man by the name of Joseph Kony in northern Uganda.
The acts of violence that were performed by rebels in Africa were horrific. Adults and children were murdered, mutilated, tortured, and raped. The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone performed despicable acts of cutting off a people's body parts with machetes to instill fear in the community. If you were working in the diamond mines and not performing up to the standards of the rebels you would lose a body part as punishment. Rebels would continue to do this from one village to another in order “to take control of the mines in the area” (Hoyt). It is estimated that in Sierra Leone that over 20,000 people suffered mutilation. The acts that the rebels performed to these innocent victims was clearly a violation to their human rights. The RUF collected 125 million a year to fund their war on the government and the people of Sierra Leone.
Kurashigue argued that what contributed to the social and political factors that caused the 1967 Rebellion is the same factors that are being applied today. The policies and conditions that led to the 1967 Rebellion is very similar in what Black Detroiters are experiencing today through discrimination, urban renewal and police terror. Once you reflect on the events that led up to the Rebellion, there were two distinct perspectives from Whites and Blacks during this era. There was a conveying mix of sadness, tragedy, anger and regret that provide a deep sense of what White America felt it lost in the Detroit Rebellion of 1967. This deep sense of loss, in turn, informs what ex-Detroiters would like to bring back or take back. Today’s impulse
The Red Brigades were an Italian terrorist organization with a strong emphasis on Marxism. Founded in 1969 by radical left-leaning students Renato Curcio and his wife Mara Cagol, the Red Brigades’ objective was “to destabilize the country” and “to overthrow capitalism” with tactics that “included robberies, kidnappings, assassinations, and arson”. In order to fully assess the impact of the Red Brigades in Italy, it is necessary to answer the question: why were the Red Brigades so violent? The answer is not as black and white as solely a pure pursuit of communism – as the above source suggests – although that is undeniably a reason. Since the violence of the Red Brigades is closely linked to the history of Italy and the events leading up
In the book, Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States, the author, Kimberly Marten, analytically and theoretically examines past and present cases of warlords; looking at their rise to power, their effect on states, their relationship with internal and external state political leaders, and the common themes that stem from each case of warlordism. Throughout this book, Marten studies the impact of warlords through four different case studies, each pertaining to different time periods and regions: Pakistan’s Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA), Georgia’s Upper Kodori and Ajara regions, Russia’s province of Chechnya, and the United States’ support of Sunni warlords in Iraq.
The presence and sheer abundance of valuable, easily extractable diamonds, that required neither vast financial investment nor excessively advanced mining techniques, provided an incentive for the control of diamond fields, leading to increased violence in the West African state of Sierra Leone. In 1991, ex-soldier and radicalist Foday Sankoh catalysed the rise of extremist violence by exploiting Sierra Leone’s amplitude of highly sought after diamonds, with their value one of the most significant on the market in the 1990’s . With the assistance of Charles Taylor, corrupt President of Liberia, the duo established a rebel army to overthrow Sierra Leone’s government – The Revolutionary United Front – but instead, capitalized on the ease of extraction of the greatly valuable resource. The release of RUF’s pamphlet “Footpaths to Democracy” revealed its initial goals to “no longer leave the destiny of [Sierra Leone] in the hands of a generation of crooked politicians and military adventurists.” However, the years following falsified majority of the promises of ‘democracy’ in Sierra Leone as RUF forces became ...
Nigeria, a country that exalts itself as the “Giant of Africa”, viewed by neighboring countries as “big in words, little in action,” has an opportunity to walk softly, but carry a big stick. Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, which operates in the northern states of Nigeria, has arguably gained control of the area and has incited fear in many of northern Nigeria’s citizens. Violence has spread like wildfire in parts of Nigeria, and people are asking, “is Nigeria capable of dealing with an insurgency of this level?”, and “If Nigeria is being significantly threatened by a group as loosely organized, but as deadly, as Boko Haram, what chance do we have to contain an insurgency?” Nigeria has the potential to be an economic powerhouse of Africa, which undoubtedly will influence other nations in the immediate area. This potential can be fully realized, and expanded upon, if Nigeria is able to deal with forces that aim to cripple it. This assessment will evaluate the internal threats that Nigeria faces, analyze the regional impact that Nigeria has on the continent of Africa, and demonstrate cause and effects.