History of Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM)
摘要
Identifying the nature of a non-state armed group (NSAG) in the context of an ongoing insurgency is difficult. This difficulty is more pronounced when the conflict involves a blurring of the distinctions between war, organized crime, and large-scale violations of human rights. In particular, insurgencies often consist of multiple networks of multiple NSAGs, some of which have different roles in different networks (Bunker, 2005). Thus, it is hard to define such an actor with different roles in various networks and as a result, insurgent groups are often mislabeled as either a terrorist organization, or a criminal network.