The Effects of Oil Production and Ethnic Representation on Violent Conflict in Nigeria: A Mixed-Methods Approach

Koos, C.; Pierskalla, Jan H.

doi:10.1080/09546553.2014.962021

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“…Despite the region's immense contribution to the bulk of federal revenue, there is limited benefit directly accrued to the Niger Delta regions. As Koos and Pierskalla (2016) argued, wealth from the regional resources did not trickle down to the population, and the inhabitants, mostly fishermen, abandoned their occupation due to the high level of environmental degradation. These levels of injustice and unresolved grievances predictably culminated to agitations through the form of militancy and intense vandalism of oil pipelines.…”

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Community perspectives of former terrorist combatants, militants and reintegration programmes in Nigeria: a systematic review

Ike

Singh

Murphy

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Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression

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Community perspectives of repentant terrorist combatants and militants alongside the trust accorded reintegration programmes are important for successful reintegration. This review attempt to fill a significant gap through the synthesis of evidence on community perspectives of interventions adopted to foster reintegration of former terrorist combatants and militants in Nigeria. Six databases including the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts, Web of Science, Scopus, Proquest and EBsco were searched. Eighteen studies met the inclusion criteria. Informed by the principles of thematic analysis and conceptual framework of synthesis, five themes emerged: (1) Design of reintegration programmes devoid of community consultation; (2) Scepticism towards the sincerity behind monetizing rehabilitation and reintegration programmes; (3) Resistance towards reintegration due to perceived favourable incentives provided to repentant combatants; (4) Lack of confidence in the genuine repentance of former repentant combatants; and (5) Lack of confidence in government's reintegration programme. The review recommends randomised controlled trials which incorporate context-specific community-centred interventions to encourage successful reintegration.

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Community perspectives of former terrorist combatants, militants and reintegration programmes in Nigeria: a systematic review

Ike

Singh

Murphy

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Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression

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“…As Nigeria is rapidly increasing its investment opportunities in resource wealth, greater access to the country is leading to increased resource extraction activities, particularly non-oil mining across the country. While oil and gas industries and solid minerals provide significant economic opportunities for the country's eco-the most challenging, as oil companies are in constant conflict with the communities, and the communities are in grievances with the government and companies (Kemp et al, 2011;Koos & Pierskalla, 2016). For example, in Nigeria, while crisis still lingers in the oil producing Niger Delta, new developments in the non-oil sector are showing signs of the Niger Delta struggles.…”

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“…The premise of the paper is based on the assertion that importance must be given to communities in mineral development, especially in resource rich (but resource cursed-see for example, Al-Abri et al, 2019) countries like Nigeria. Given Nigeria's reprehensible reputation with oil-producing communities (see, for example, Auty, 1993;Watts, 2004aWatts, , 2004bWatts, , 2008United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2006;Ogunleye, 2008;Amnesty International, 2009; United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), 2011; Koos & Pierskalla, 2016;Albert et al, 2019), non-oil industries that are investing in the country could draw lessons from the Niger Delta, and other parts of the world, to avoid replicating the debilitating negativity attached to resource production.…”

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Mineral Resource Extractive Activities in Nigeria: Communities Also Matter!

Naibbi¹,

Chindo²

2020

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Poor management of land resources creates environmental problems such as land degradation, soil erosion and pollution, as well as serious social and economic tensions. Mineral extraction, production, refining and distribution have immediate impact on the environments and their host communities. Nigeria being an extractive economy with numerous cases of defiance by the host communities on the mining operating companies, a number of ways for advancing dealings with communities can be drawn to inform broader community dialogue in the extractive economy of Nigeria and countries with similar situations. This paper used information from secondary sources to demonstrate the importance of accommodating host communities as stakeholders. The paper establishes the various roles played by mining stakeholders and how their involvements have changed overtime in terms of scale. Options were drawn for improving the current state of Nigerian mining communities and suggestions were made on avoiding future host community conflict (typically existing in the oil region of the country). The paper recommends that the recognition of communities as stakeholders is crucial in developing Nigeria's non-oil sector.

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“…In this regard, Nigeria's weak institutions and oil infrastructure are important (Koos & Pierskalla 2016). Oil revenue vastly outstrips the revenue generated by income tax, so that Nigeria has a political economy that is defined not by the needs of the Nigerian people, but by oil rents (ibid.).…”

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Oil Bunkering in the Niger Delta

Fiennes¹

2020

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Nigerian crude oil is said to be 'stolen' on an industrial scale (Katsouris & Sayne 2013, iii). United Nations' estimates have suggested that Nigeria's shadow oil industry has a turnover of US$2 billion per year (Burgis 2015, p. 177). Oil theft-known as 'bunkering'-involves tapping into existing infrastructure and extracting oil, either for sale or for local consumption in the oilrich Niger Delta region (Katsouris & Sayne 2013). Within Nigeria, oil bunkering is theft and can be prosecuted under the 1975 Anti-Sabotage Act or the Petroleum Act, although in practice little successful prosecution has taken place (Naanen 2019). The perspectives of social harm and received criminological literature both offer useful insight into the practice of bunkering. These are complementary approaches: the lens of social harm supplements and nuances the tools of traditional criminological theory. Together they provide a wider field of view, which not only encompasses individual culpability and state definitions of crime, but also emphasises the role of global social and economic structures that obstruct 'the fulfilment of fundamental needs' (Tifft & Sullivan 2001, p. 191)-and thus produce harm. These structures include entrenched corruption and inadequate public service provision (Koos & Pierskalla 2016). A social harm perspective also highlights the tunnel vision inherent in the 'language of crime' (Copson 2018, p. 49). Discourse around oil bunkering often adopts the terminology of theft. This language distracts from and disavows the claims of ownership that many Delta Nigerians lay to the land's natural resources.

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The Effects of Oil Production and Ethnic Representation on Violent Conflict in Nigeria: A Mixed-Methods Approach

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Community perspectives of former terrorist combatants, militants and reintegration programmes in Nigeria: a systematic review

Community perspectives of former terrorist combatants, militants and reintegration programmes in Nigeria: a systematic review

Mineral Resource Extractive Activities in Nigeria: Communities Also Matter!

Oil Bunkering in the Niger Delta

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