Week 2
Slides
Readings
All readings can be accessed here.
Required
- Chapter 1 in Elisabeth J. Wood, Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
- Elaine K. Denny and Barbara F. Walter, “Ethnicity and Civil War,” Journal of Peace Research 51, no. 2 (2014): 199–212.
- Chapter 3 in Patrick Cockburn, The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East (Verso Books, 2016).
Class activity
We’re working with these manifestos. Please note some of these contain extremely offensive content. The people/groups included are:
Rumiyah, the ISIS magazine
Manifesto of the Christchurch mosque terrorist attack
- Dropbox will not display this one, here’s a link
Manifesto of the 2019 el Paso, Walmart terrorist attack
Elliot Rodger, the “incel” manifesto
Eco-extremist group in Mexico, Individualistas Tendiendo a lo Salvaje