Report - Resist, negotiate, submit? - Civilian agency and jihadism in Central Mali

The area the North, with the help of French and Chadian is heavily affected by seasonal droughts; after troops, a UN peacekeeping mission, MINUSMA, the droughts of the 1960s and 1970s, many was deployed in 2013 to oversee implementation pastoralists migrated to the Delta in search of of a peace agreement between secular armed pasture. [...] Its The core membership of the insurgency, initially combatants may be present in villages if they at least, were a sub-group of Fulani herders from do not expect the army to appear, but they the dryzone of Mopti, who gradually settled in largely monitor and sanction people’s behaviour the Delta following the droughts of the 1960s through a network of informants.17 The chiefs, and 1970s.15 They jo. [...] First, they were collective, demands were to allow the jihadists to preach in group-level responses which recurred across the mosque, the payment of zakat, Islamic alms many localities and were characteristic of the usually distributed to the poor, the obligatory use dynamics of war in Central Mali. [...] In one village in the cercle from the military, which deployed to certain of Mopti, clans made an alliance with the jihadists hotspot areas across central Mali through an to settle a long-standing dispute around the title integrated government-led plan to stabilise the of Jowro and ownership of pasture. [...] the delivery of food and other supplies with the help of army escorts, or the dozos (traditional In sum, dialogue has been a crucial community hunters), who were in charge of the village response from the early stages of the conflict to defence in localities where traditional hunting situations where violence and insecurity were societies existed.