{"id":2825,"date":"2021-03-08T12:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2021-03-08T12:15:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:15:47","slug":"defence-research-network-problematic-quick-fixes-for-africas-counterinsurgencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2825","title":{"rendered":"Defence Research Network: Problematic quick fixes for Africa&#8217;s (Counter)Insurgencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2826 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-1-300x182.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-1-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-1.png 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sorinatoltica.com\/\">Sorina Toltica<\/a>&#8216;s new blog post for the Defence Research Network discusses the challenges of countering today\u2019s insurgencies in Mali, Sahel and other regions of the African continent.\u00a0It argues that complex conflicts require more than just strong borders, and careful consideration needs to be given in the future to the way that both military and development solutions contribute to both short- and long-term local dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Read the blog post on the Defence Research Network&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/defenceresnet.org\/blog\/\">website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can subscribe to their monthly newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/defenceresnet.org\/#subscribe\"><strong>here<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s newsletter on counterinsurgency can be accessed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/ccbcf73974de\/drn-december-newsletter-welcome-to-the-drn-13357814\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Defence Research Network is an <span>interdisciplinary network of Masters, PhD and\u00a0Early Career Researchers focused on defence, security and\u00a0military topics in relation to policy, strategy, history, culture and\u00a0society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorina Toltica&#8216;s new blog post for the Defence Research Network discusses the challenges of countering today\u2019s insurgencies in Mali, Sahel and other regions of the African continent.\u00a0It argues that complex conflicts require more than just strong borders, and careful consideration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2825\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,5],"tags":[423,173,570,703,72,412,408,420],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-news","category-resources","tag-conflict","tag-counterinsurgency","tag-defence","tag-insurgency","tag-mali","tag-sahel","tag-security","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}