insurgency

Examples of insurgency in the following topics:

• External Sources of Social Change

  • Political Process Theory argues that there are three vital components for movement formation: insurgent consciousness, organizational strength, and political opportunities.
  • The insurgent consciousness is the collective sense of injustice that movement members (or potential movement members) feel and serves as the motivation for movement organization.
  • Some groups may have the insurgent consciousness and resources to mobilize, but because political opportunities are closed, they will not have any success.

• Social Movement Theories

  • Political process theory argues that there are three vital components for movement formation: insurgent consciousness, organizational strength, and political opportunities.
  • The insurgent consciousness is the collective sense of injustice that movement members (or potential movement members) feel and serves as the motivation for movement organization.
  • Some groups may have the insurgent consciousness and resources to mobilize, but because political opportunities are closed, they will not have any success.

• War

  • Some hostilities, such as insurgency or civil war, may persist for long periods of time with a low level of military activity.

• Police

  • In counter insurgency type campaigns, select and specially trained units of police armed and equipped as light infantry have been designated as police field forces.

• Power, Authority, and Violence

  • Political powers are not limited to heads of states, however the extent to which a person or group such as an insurgency, terrorist group, or multinational corporation possesses such power relates to the amount of societal influence they can wield, formally or informally.