Oil and insurgency in the Niger Delta : : managing the complex politics of petro-violence / / edited by Cyril Obi and Siri Aas Rustad.
The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns. Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta analyses the dynamics of the violence, focusing on the ways in which oil and Nigerian politics have morphed po...
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| Superior document: | Africa now |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London, England : : Zed Books,, ©2011. [London, England] : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Africa now (Zed Books)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Causes of conflict, state (in)capacities. The Nigerian state, oil and the Niger Delta crisis / Ukoha Ukiwo
- Capacity and governance deficits in the response to the Niger Delta crisis / Babatunde A. Ahonsi
- The struggle for resource control and violence in the Niger Delta / Rhuks Ako
- The Niger Delta crisis and the question of access to justice / Engobo Emeseh
- The Ijaw National Congress and conflict resolution in the Niger Delta / Ibaba Samuel Ibaba
- Changing the paradigm of pacification : oil and militarization in Nigeria's Delta region / Charles Ukeje
- Nigeria's oil diplomacy and the management of the Niger Delta crisis / Kayode Soremekun
- pt. 2. Conflict actors' dynamics. 'Mend me' : the movement for the emancipation of the Niger Delta and the empowerment of violence / Morten Bøås
- Popular and criminal violence as instruments of struggle in the Niger Delta region / Augustine Ikelegbe
- Swamped with weapons : the proliferation of illicit small arms and light weapons in the Niger Delta / Nils Duquet
- Women's protests in the Niger Delta region / Oluwatoyin Oluwaniyi
- pt. 3. Oil MNCs' response(s). Corporate social responsibility and the Niger Delta conflict : issues and prospects / Uwafiokun Idemudia
- Labelling oil, contesting governance : Legaloil.com, the GMoU and profiteering in the Niger Delta / Anna Zalik
- Conclusion : amnesty and post-amnesty peace, is the window of opportunity closing for the Niger Delta? / Cyril Obi and Siri Aas Rustad.