Preventing other ‘Marawis’ in the southern Philippines

• Main Author: Franco, Joseph
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Philippines; Islamic State; Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102674; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50281
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

After more than 5 months of intense fighting, the Battle for Marawi has concluded as the largest urban combat scenario in modern Philippine history. Winning a kinetic campaign against violent extremist organisations like the Maute Group is insufficient in itself to prevent the eruption of other ‘Mar...