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Insurgencies and the Role of Refugees: Focus on Afghanistan and the Taliban
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| Seminar Introduction |
 Outside support for insurgency movements has changed since the end of the Cold War. Although state support still plays a dominant role in supporting insurgencies, as it did during the Cold War, other forms of support have become important, including assistance from diasporas, refugees or other non-governmental actors. Understanding these changing trends is crucial for policymakers to predict the success or failure of an insurgency movement.Compared to other forms of support, refugees usually play a limited role in supporting insurgencies. However, a notable exception is the case of Afghanistan refugees in Pakistan and the creation of the Taliban. RAND senior research analysts Daniel L. Byman, Peter Chalk, Bruce Hoffman, William Rosenau and David Brannan analyzed modern trends in insurgency movements and created a report that would enable intelligence analysts to better identify factors that affect insurgencies. This seminar has been adapted from that report.
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- Define what makes an insurgency.
- List the primary forms of support and their relative importance for insurgencies in the post-Cold War era.
- Identify the main insurgency movements in Afghanistan and their primary supporters.
- Explain how refugees can create and sustain an insurgency, using the example of Afghan refugees and the Taliban.
- Describe the modern history of Afghan refugees in Pakistan and the political forces and movements within and around the refugees.
- Evaluate common factors and trends that give insurgencies power and sustain them.
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Copyright 2001, RAND.
This seminar has been adapted from the RAND research report Trends in Outside Support for Insurgent Movements.
Trends in Outside Support for Insurgent Movements
Byman, Daniel L.; Chalk, Peter; Hoffman, Bruce; Rosenau, William; Brannan, David
Paperback (2001)
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