9 - Leaderless Resistance and Netwars in the Activities of the Ecological Movement: Extremist Wings

Abstract

This chapter examines the transformations that have taken place within the organizational structures due to the development of new media (especially the Internet), and the consequences of these changes for the proliferation of ecologically motivated violence. It discusses the trend of these organizations to move from the traditional hierarchical and centrally governed organizational structures toward more decentralized structures, such as chain network, knot structure, multichannel structure, hybrid structure, and leaderless resistance.