Insurgency
Definition
An organised armed movement that seeks to seize, hold or contest control of territory and population from an existing government, often running a parallel administration in the areas it controls.
Related terms
- Crime-Terror Nexus
- The observed overlap between organised crime and politically motivated violence, where groups on either side borrow financing methods, smuggling routes and personnel...
- State Crime
- Harm caused, ordered or knowingly tolerated by government officials acting in their official capacity, breaching domestic law or established human rights norms.
- Terrorism
- The deliberate use or threat of violence against non-combatants by a clandestine actor to spread fear and influence an audience wider than...
- Counter-Terrorism Law
- Special statutes such as India's UAPA and the UK's Terrorism Act 2000 that define terrorism offences and often depart from ordinary criminal...
- Deradicalisation
- A programme aimed at changing a person's extremist beliefs, distinct from disengagement, which targets a person's violent behaviour without necessarily changing what...
- Political Crime
- The broader category covering any offence committed for a political motive, by a state or non-state actor, including civil disobedience and sedition-type...
- Proscribed Organisation
- A group formally banned under counter-terrorism law, making membership, support and fundraising for it separate criminal offences.
- Proscription
- The legal act of a government formally listing an organisation as terrorist, which then makes membership, support or fundraising for that organisation...
- Unlawful Activities
- The statutory phrase from India's Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, the country's principal counter-terrorism law.
Explained in these topics
- Terrorism, Insurgency and Crime and Politics (UGC-NET Unit I)An organised armed movement that tries to seize, hold or contest control of territory and population from an existing government.
- Terrorism, Insurgency and the Politics of Crime