Crime-Terror Continuum: The Convergence in Mozambique

• Autor(a) principal: Albuquerque, Carlos Eduardo Pires de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Piñon, Charles Pacheco, Cardoso, Francisco de Assis Machado
• Tipo de documento: preprint
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: SciELO Preprints
• Texto Completo: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/preprint/view/4206
• topic: Crime-Terror Continuum; Entanglement; Convergência; Terrorismo; Moçambique; Crime Organizado Transnacional; Crime-Terror Continuum; Entanglement; Convergence; Terrorism; Transnational Organized Crime; Mozambique

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.