Dialoguing and negotiating with Al-Shabaab: the role of clan elders as insider-partial mediators MI Shire Journal of Eastern African Studies 15 (1), 1-22, 2021 | 21 | 2021 |
More attacks or more services?: Insurgent groups' behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan, Syria, and Somalia M Ibrahim Shire Behavioral sciences of terrorism and political aggression 14 (4), 288-311, 2022 | 13 | 2022 |
How do leadership decapitation and targeting error affect suicide bombings? The case of Al-Shabaab M Ibrahim Shire Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 46 (5), 682-702, 2023 | 12 | 2023 |
Brothers in arms: The phenomenon of complex suicide attacks M Ibrahim Shire, A Hersi Terrorism and political violence 34 (2), 263-284, 2022 | 12 | 2022 |
Protection or predation? Understanding the behavior of community-created self-defense militias during civil wars M Ibrahim Shire Small Wars & Insurgencies 33 (3), 467-498, 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
Provocation and attrition strategies in transnational terrorism: The case of Al-Shabaab M Ibrahim Shire Terrorism and political violence 35 (4), 945-970, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
Turkey’s evolving security policy in Somalia M Ibrahim Shire Turkey’s Evolving Security Policy in Somalia (February 1, 2022), 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
Now Is the Time to Engage Al-Shabaab. Religious Leaders and Clan Elders Can Help. M Ibrahim Shire War on the Rocks, 2021 | 1* | 2021 |
Provoking an Overreaction: Transborder Guerrilla Warfare in the Kenya-Somalia Borderlands M Ibrahim Shire African Security 16 (1), 61-94, 2023 | | 2023 |
Auf die lokalen Schlichter setzen M Ibrahim Shire Welt-Sichten, 2021 | | 2021 |
How a protracted political battle led to the extension of the Somalia president’s term M Ibrahim Shire The Conversation, 2021 | | 2021 |
What’s behind fresh unrest in Somalia – and what needs to be done M Ibrahim Shire The Conversation, 2021 | | 2021 |
Why Somali clan elders could hold the key to opening dialogue with Al-Shabaab M Ibrahim Shire The Conversation, 2021 | | 2021 |
Public outrage deters Al-Shabaab more than counter-terror efforts. Here’s why M Ibrahim Shire The Conversation, 2020 | | 2020 |
Kenya’s carrot-and-stick approach to Somalia will not work M Ibrahim Shire TRT World, 2019 | | 2019 |
Female Suicide Bombers Shows al-Shabaab’s Desperation M Ibrahim Shire International Policy Digest, 2019 | | 2019 |