Other causes of organizational “suicide” include failing to excite the interest of a second or third generation, experiencing burnout, succumbing to individual members’ departures or betrayals, and breaking into competing splinters. All of these may result in the group turning its violence against itself instead of the state. All can be promoted by steady pressure against a group applied by either the military or security services; however, there is no substitute for understanding the unique dynamics of individual groups within their local cultural, historical, and political contexts, and then
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