Bullets to Ballots

Omar Ashour is an Associate Professor of Security and Military Studies and the Founding Chair of the Critical Security Studies Programme at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He is the author of How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements (Routledge, 2009), as well as the editor of Bullets to Ballots: Collective De-Radicalisation of Armed Movements (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).

This edited collection brings together leading academic and practitioner experts on the transformation of armed and violent movements to peaceful actors across ideological milieus. Collective de-radicalisation is unfortunately still something which we know very little about. This in-depth edited volume is a milestone in the field and is highly recommend to anyone interested in the dynamics of violent conflict transformation, demobilisation and armed groups’ processes of change over time.

• Revisiting Collective De-Radicalisation: A Comparative PerspectiveOmar AshourLessons from South Africa: A First-hand TestimonyRonnie KasrilsThe Collective De-Radicalisation of the Islamic Group in Egypt: A First-hand TestimonyOsama RushdiFrom Arms to Talks: Transformations of Three Syrian Armed Islamist MovementsHamzah AlmustafaThe Mahdi Army and the Sadrist Movement in Iraq: The Struggle for TransformationHaider SaeedA Draw or a Defeat? How the IRA Transitioned from Bullets to BallotsGordon ClubbTransformations and Defeats: ETA and the End of the Armed CampaignNick HutcheonThe Afghan Taliban and The Peace Negotiations: Are the Taliban ‘De-radicalising’?Thomas H. JohnsonTransformations after ‘Defeats’: The Cases of the Tupamaros and the Armed Left in Latin AmericaAldo MarchesiLeaving the Weapons Without Losing the War: Understanding the Transformation of the FMLNAlberto Martín ÁlvarezNegotiated Revolution in South Africa, 1990–1994Thula SimpsonTransformations in Ethiopia: From Armed Struggle to Politics of CoalitionsMehari Taddele MaruTransformations of Armed Nonstate Actors: Enduring Challenges and Strategic ImplicationsOmar AshourBibliographyIndex