0 an occasion when a group of people attempt to take control of their country by force:
The government is reported to be concerned about the growing insurgency in the south.
1 the violent struggle of a group of people who refuse to accept their government's power:
The insurgency continues despite last week's assault on the rebel stronghold.
The chief challenge to the government's authority was not leftwing insurgency but right-wing military mutinies.
This accommodation effectively neutralized the development of statewide insurgency networks.
But the obstacle remains, he argues, a guerrilla insurgency which has lost political and public support and has an increasing interest in continuing the war.
The report focused on the imperative to monitor, report violations that would lead to legal actions against governments and insurgency or guerrilla forces.
Participation was high, political opinion was informed, organized insurgency was common, and people felt that the outcome of elections mattered.
In fact, one of the biggest irritants in the relationship is insurgency and separatism.
Consider, for example, a nation facing an internal threat because of a colonial insurgency.
The two chapters analyzing political processes that lead to insurgencies are the book's most successful chapters.
