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A comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram
insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks,
resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and
beyond. It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic
group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern
Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2
million people. While its territorial gains have largely been
recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across
vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance,
livelihoods and food security, as well as posing a security risk to
Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Less attention is paid to the pervasive
popular rejection of violent extremism on the ground. How did a
diverse and economically dynamic West African society unravel so
violently, and for so long? Why does radicalizationhave so little
influence on large Muslim populations in surrounding areas, such as
the Yoruba in south-western Nigeria, or the poor ethnically similar
Muslim majority in central Niger just north of the border? This
book looks beyond the details of the insurgency to examine the
wider social and political processes that explain why Boko Haram
emerged when and where it did, and what forces exist within society
to contain it. Drawing on the detailed fieldworkof specialist
Nigerian and Nigerianist scholars from Nigeria, connecting the
worst of Boko Haram violence to the wider realities of the present,
the book offers new insights into the drivers of Islamic extremism
in Nigeria - poverty, regional inequality, environmental stress,
migration, youth unemployment, and state corruption and human
rights abuses - with a view to charting more sustainable paths out
of the conflict. Nigeria: Premium Times Books
A comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram
insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks,
resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and
beyond. It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic
group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern
Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2
million people. While its territorial gains have largely been
recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across
vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance,
livelihoods and food security, as well as posing a security risk to
Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Less attention is paid to the pervasive
popular rejection of violent extremism on the ground. How did a
diverse and economically dynamic West African society unravel so
violently, and for so long? Why does radicalizationhave so little
influence on large Muslim populations in surrounding areas, such as
the Yoruba in south-western Nigeria, or the poor ethnically similar
Muslim majority in central Niger just north of the border? This
book looks beyond the details of the insurgency to examine the
wider social and political processes that explain why Boko Haram
emerged when and where it did, and what forces exist within society
to contain it. Drawing on the detailed fieldworkof specialist
Nigerian and Nigerianist scholars from Nigeria, connecting the
worst of Boko Haram violence to the wider realities of the present,
the book offers new insights into the drivers of Islamic extremism
in Nigeria - poverty, regional inequality, environmental stress,
migration, youth unemployment, and state corruption and human
rights abuses - with a view to charting more sustainable paths out
of the conflict. Nigeria: Premium Times Books
This book critically explores the emerging architecture of regional
security in Africa with particular reference to counterterrorism
and counterinsurgency in the Lake Chad Basin Region. In New
Architecture of Regional Security in Africa, the
contributors--scholars, policy-makers, and defense/security
practitioners from both within and outside Africa--examine the
evolution, dynamics, and working mechanisms for peace and security
or emerging regional security architecture for regional security in
the region. The volume will be essential reading for all academics,
scholars, and researchers in academia and NGOs with interests in
counterinsurgency and counterterrorism related issues in the Lake
Chad Basin region. Additionally, the volume will also be useful for
students of counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, small wars,
terrorism and strategic studies, and defense and security studies.
It will also provide invaluable reference material for policy
practitioners working on the activities in the contemporary
operating environment within the Lake Chad Basin region. This book
offers innovative perspectives on the emerging architecture for
regional security in Africa, with a focus on how member states of
the Lake Chad Basin Commission are coping with the challenges of
terrorism and insurgency. Edited by Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala,
the volume is the first to critically document regional security in
the Lake Chad Basin.
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