Boko Haram’s Terrorist Campaign in Nigeria: Contexts, Dimensions and Emerging Trajectories

ISBN-13: 9781032077840 / Angielski

Temitope B. Oriola; Samuel Oyewole; Freedom Onuoha

Opis

This book investigates the devastating impacts of the Boko Haram terrorist campaign in Nigeria, reflecting on the group’s historical context, organizational dynamics, and emerging trajectories.

Since its inception in 2002, Boko Haram’s terrorist campaign has become one of the major threats to security and human development in West Africa, killing tens of thousands of people, and displacing many more. This book reflects on the origins and development of Boko Haram, contextualizing it in the global trend of militant Islamist movements. It delves into the tactics of the organization, their deployment of sexual and gender- based violence against women and human rights abuses in the war against them. The war against Boko Haram has seen engagement from the international community, national and regional military operations, and also a range of civilian- led movements. This book reflects on the roles of these different actors, and the emerging trajectories that need to be considered in order to eradicate Boko Haram.

Drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives, this book will be of interest to researchers across the fi elds of sociology, political science, African studies, and peace and conflict studies.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin: Dimensions, Activities and Trajectories

Temitope B. Oriola, Freedom C. Onuoha and Samuel Oyewole

Part I: Boko Haram and Gender

Chapter 2 Deconstructing the Notion of Women as "Perpetrators" of Jihadi Terrorism: The Case of Boko Haram

Damilohun D. Ayoyo, Anthony Mpiani, Temitope B. Oriola

Chapter 3 Boko Haram’s Abduction of Dapchi Schoolgirls and State Responses

Samuel Oyewole and Freedom C. Onuoha

Part II: Boko Haram and the Media

Chapter 4 When reporters become victims: The Nigerian media and the Boko Haram conflict

Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi

Chapter 5 Boko Haram, Counter-Insurgency and Media-Oriented Terrorism

Mitterand M. Okorie

Part III: Boko Haram and Displacement

Chapter 6 The Responsibility to Defend? Boko Haram Terrorism and Responses to Terror-Induced Displacement in Northeast Nigeria

Obasesam Okoi

Chapter 7 Resilience and Livelihood Strategies among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Northeast Nigeria

Usman A. Tar and Samuel Baba Ayegba

Part IV: Boko Haram and Non-State Actors

Chapter 8 The Role of NGOs in the Boko Haram Conflict: Have NGO Activities in Northeast Nigeria Prolonged the Conflict?

Ibikunle Adeakin, Simon Gray and Oge Madu

Chapter 9 Vigilantism: The Political Economy of the Civilian Joint Task Force and its Consequences on Counter-terrorism Operations in Northeast Nigeria

Emeka Thaddues Njoku and Joshua Akintayo

　

Part V: Boko Haram and Human Rights

Chapter 10 Human rights violations in the fight against Boko Haram

Anthony Mpiani

Chapter 11 Human Rights, Counterterrorist Operations and the Politics of Leahy Laws Implementation in Nigeria: Between Facts and Fiction

Omotuyi Sunday and Iwebunor Okwechime

Part VI: Boko Haram and International Actors

Chapter 12 Mapping International Support for the fight against Boko Haram

Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala

O autorze

Temitope B. Oriola is joint Editor- in- Chief of the African Security journal, and Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Freedom C. Onuoha is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria.

Samuel Oyewole is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Studies and International Relations, North- West University, South Africa, and a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Federal University Oye- Ekiti, Nigeria.