Episode 3: Elections in the DRC and coercive radicalisation in armed conflict

IISS Research Analyst for Conflict, Security and Development, Dr Eleanor Beevor joins Dr Kori Schake for this episode of Sounds Strategic.With a research focus on East Africa, Eleanor is well-placed to discuss a region that has experienced significant developments in the turn of the year, including the aftermath of recent elections in the DRC. Eleanor’s expertise in the coercive methods of indoctrination and radicalisation in Uganda by the Lord’s Resistance Army under Joseph Kony allows for a fascinating discussion into similar methods used by ISIS.An anthropologist by training, she expounds the virtues of both qualitative and quantitative data analysis, which are central to her work on the IISS Armed Conflict Survey and the Armed Conflict Database.Favourite data visualisation:‘Ecocide in Indonesia’ by Forensic Architecture Reading recommendations:Eleanor Beevor, ‘Coercive Radicalization: Charismatic Authority and the Internal Strategies of ISIS and the Lord’s Resistance Army’, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 496–521.Mike Martin, An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict (London: Hurst, 2014). Date of recording: 21 January 2018 Sounds Strategic is recorded and produced at the IISS in London. Theme music: ‘Safety in Numbers’ by We Were Promised Jetpacks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.