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Article: CENTRIFUGAL TENDENCIES IN THE ALGERIAN CIVIL WAR.
- Article from:
- Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
- Author:
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IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM, after nearly a decade of violence, the civil war in Algeria is winding down. A unilateral cease-fire sponsored by the Islamic Salvation Army (AIS) in 1997 and the regime's Civil Concord initiative, which promised amnesty or light sentences for rebels who surrendered by January 2000, created momentum for the cessation of political violence. The number of deaths attributed to the conflict has diminished substantially in the last few years, and there is renewed optimism about the prospects for rebuilding Algerian society.
Despite such remarkable progress toward peace, however, a number of Islamist groups are perpetuating a low-intensity ...