# Leaderless Jihad **Entity class:** Terrorism-network thesis and book **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Leaderless Jihad** is Marc Sageman's account of decentralized terrorist mobilization through self-organizing peer and kin groups, especially under internet-mediated conditions. It emphasizes bottom-up social bonds over continuous central command. ## Relationships - **associated with:** [[wiki/Marc Sageman|Marc Sageman]]. - **related to:** [[wiki/Leaderless Resistance|Leaderless Resistance]] and [[wiki/Complex Contagion|Complex Contagion]]. - **contested by:** hierarchical emphasis in the [[wiki/Sageman-Hoffman Debate|Sageman-Hoffman Debate]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]