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What is Bokoharamism

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fifth Edition
The planned, deliberate, and tactical exploitation by a terrorist group of the social value and vulnerability of minors, specifically creating an unprecedented degree of fear in society and drawing global attention. This strategy was pioneered by Nigeria’s Islamist group, the Boko haram.
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Boko Haram's Feminization, Minorization, and Cyberization of Terrorism: Offering the Cyberterrorism Diffusion Model as Anti-Bokoharamism Tool
Adamkolo Mohammed Ibrahim (University of Maiduguri, Nigeria)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3479-3.ch025
Abstract
This chapter employs cybertechnology approaches to address issues related to the continuing Boko Haram insurgency in North-East Nigeria supported by cybertechnology, especially the group's deployment of girls and boys to perpetrate suicide attacks. The mass abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls in 2014 at Chibok Community in the North-Eastern Nigerian state of Borno is widely believed as the group's first ever gendered terrorism activity, which could only be successful if cybertechnology was used to coordinate the activity. That incident raised the group's global notoriety. The aftermaths of that sad incident rather emboldened the terrorists and made them appreciate the global social and political values of girls as potent tools for suicide terrorism. Recommendations for theoretical approach and policy guidelines toward ending terrorism were discussed at the end.
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