This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted dimensions of violent extremist groups in South Asia, attending especially to the relationships between the local and regional forces influencing their emergence and activities. The book offers comprehensive analysis of how political, security-sensitive events, and processes are framed, and the factors responsible for such framing. Similarly, it discusses prevalent discourses on anti-violent extremism policy and the on-the-ground militarized preventive/reactive interventions they guide, which are inspired by ideologies that increasingly reflect controversial understandings of the experiences people within conditions of state fragility. In doing so, the book balances attention to the local conditions that frame rise and fall or persistency in the incidences of violent extremism. The systems-based ecological framing of the issues in the book is influenced by a concern for the broader questions of securitization, global governance, poverty, (under)development, and armed conflicts in South Asia.weiterlesen