Organisationally Mediated Dynamics of Armed Violence in Egypt

This paper is a case study analysis of the evolving use of political violence in Egypt by the Islamic Group (IG) and Jihad Group (JG) in the 90s. It adopts an actor-centred perspective to compare the organisational negotiation and transformation of political violence between these two groups. Following the premise that the study of political violence needs to disaggregate organisational, spatial and temporal dimensions, the main objective of this paper is to investigate the similarities and differences between these two groups. It proves that political violence is an organisationally negotiated process which is continuously debated inside militant groups, irrespectively of their ideological leanings.