Community involvement and terrorism in Waberi District, Mogadishu, Somalia

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2021-08
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Kampala International University, college of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
The study examined the effect of community on terrorism in Waberi District, Mogadishu, Somalia and was specifically guided by three objectives namely: - to assess the effect of information sharing on terrorism, to analyze the effect of sheltering terrorists and to establish the effect of community silence on the existence of terrorists. The study followed the social learning theory and liberalist theory on terrorism and also assumed that community through sharing information; sheltering terrorists and community silence cause effect on terrorist activities such as kidnapping, suicide attacks and bombing among others. The study used a cross-sectional research design. A population of 200 was considered from which 133 respondents were sampled. Data was collected using questionnaire and through interviews. Analysis was done using frequency tables and narrative explanations. From the study findings the study indicated that community members have information about terrorist plans in Waberi district. More so Finding from both questionnaire and interview held indicated that community members give ideas on how to carry out terrorism activities to terrorists in Waberi district. However also finding from both questionnaire and interview indicate that community members provide housing to the terrorists in Waberi district. On the third objective the Finding in this study from both questionnaire and interview indicated that community members were always quite about the existence of terrorists in Waberi district. From the study findings the results concluded that a positive effect of community on terrorism whereby community was evidenced in information sharing, sheltering terrorists and community silence on the presence of terrorists or on-going terrorist activities in the area. The study recommended that Waberi District authorities and government of Somalia should train and recruit community members as intelligence officers, work hand in hand with the international organizations and carry out massive sensitization on the dangers of community silence about terrorist existence to the community members. The also recommends that the Government of Somalia and the Waberi district leaders should carry out massive sensitization on the dangers of sharing information with terrorists to the community members. More so the study recommends that the Government of Somalia and Waberi district leaders should work hand in hand with the international organisations like UN to plant its intelligence officers among the residents of the community members to monitor and supervise the sheltering procedures and ascertain the people being sheltered.
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A research work submitted to the school of humanities and social sciences in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Masters of Public administration and Management of Kampala International University.
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Community involvement, Terrorism, Somalia
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