Theorising and illustrating plural policing models in countering armed banditry as hybrid terrorism in northwest Nigeria

Ojewale, Oluwole

doi:10.1080/23311886.2023.2174486

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“…The official narrative of the Nigerian Government describes the armed Fulani herdsmen activities as acts of banditry (Ojewale, 2021) and communal conflicts (Premium Times, 2018), which authorities seek to address by establishing grazing settlements and reserves for the herdsmen (Bamidele, 2018). This narrative seeks to accommodate the armed Fulani herdsmen by taking portions of land belonging to the farming communities and providing grazing routes and settlements for Fulani herdsmen for their business enterprise.…”

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Victimisation by Policy Exclusion: The Case of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria

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Iorbo

2023

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This paper discusses the victimisation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria by policy exclusion. It asserts that while in policy, Government bears the primary responsibility for the protection and assistance of all IDPs irrespective of the cause of displacement, in practice, humanitarian response plans for the protection and assistance of IDPs exclude victims of armed Fulani herdsmen conflicts from assistance. It also found that several proposed federal bills to address the armed Fulani herdsmen-farmer conflicts have focused on securing land from victimised farming communities to establish settlements for the Fulani herders. However, none of the bills has prohibited arbitrary displacement; return, resettlement or rehabilitation of persons displaced by the armed Fulani herdsmen. The paper concludes that the exclusion of victims of the armed Fulani herdsmen conflict from national humanitarian response plan is a strategy of Government that is unwilling to recognise and address the armed Fulani herdsmen as a national security challenge. It recommends that the Nigerian Government holistically addresses internal displacement and provide equal protection and assistance to all victims of displacement as stipulated by the Nigerian national policy on internal displacement.

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Victimisation by Policy Exclusion: The Case of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria

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Iorbo

2023

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“…It is against this background that it has been canvassed that the definition of terrorism should be broadened to include other forms of violence such as banditry, kidnapping and human trafficking. These acts all involve threats or the use of force in perpetrating criminal acts just like terrorism (Ojewale, 2021;Welch, 2017).…”

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Resolving the Definitional Quagmire of Terrorism and Providing Guidance to States

Abuloye,

Kolade

2024

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The study examined the definition of terrorism from the early years to the modern day. The study analyzed the attempts at definitions of terrorism at international law, other definitions in international relations and scholarly definitions. The study aimed at solving the problem of definition of terrorism, particularly the widely acclaimed notion that there is no precise definition of terrorism. The importance of having a definition is to know what exactly to fight, the appropriate penalties for such acts and to ensure that all violent acts are not subsumed under terrorism. The study revealed that international law had provided a guidance as to what the definition of terrorism should be. This guidance could be gleaned from the various instruments of the United Nations, other definitions in international relations and scholarly definitions. The study concluded that the common elements of terrorism from the attempts at definition at international law could form a consensual definition and serve as a foundation for States to build upon in defining acts of terrorism in domestic laws.

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Geopolitics and Terrorism in West Africa

Ojewale

2024

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics

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Theorising and illustrating plural policing models in countering armed banditry as hybrid terrorism in northwest Nigeria

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

Victimisation by Policy Exclusion: The Case of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria

Victimisation by Policy Exclusion: The Case of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria

Resolving the Definitional Quagmire of Terrorism and Providing Guidance to States

Geopolitics and Terrorism in West Africa

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