The Unfinished Revolution in Nigeria's Niger Delta: Prospects for Environmental Justice and Peace

ISBN-13: 9780367590161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 168 str.

Cyril Obi; Temitope Oriola

Opis

Provides a critical study of the trajectory of struggles in the Niger Delta, paying attention to continuity and change, including developments linked to the shift from local resistance, to the rupturing of the Presidential Amnesty peace deal and the resurgence low-intensity sporadic armed militancy led by the Niger Delta Avengers militia.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: the unfinished revolution—the Niger Delta struggle since 1995.

Cyril Obi and Temitope B. Oriola

Chapter 2. MOSOP since 1995: somewhere between hope and despair?

Kialee Nyiayaana

Chapter 3. The Urhobo militant movements and the contentious Ijaw domination of the Niger Delta struggle.

Samuel Oyewole

Chapter 4. A critique of the Joint-Military Task Force (JTF) deployment in the Niger Delta.

Damilohun D. Ayoyo and Temitope B. Oriola

Chapter 5. Presidential Amnesty and resource control militancy in a petro-state.

Mitterand M. Okorie

Chapter 6. Comparing socioeconomic and human development in Nigeria and other oil-producing countries.

Aderoju Oyefusi

Chapter 7. From peaceful to non-peaceful protests: the trajectory of women's movements in the Niger Delta.

Abosede Omowumi Babatunde

Chapter 8. The resurgence of militant groups in the Niger Delta: a study of security threats and the prospects for peace in Nigeria.

Chibuzor Chile Nwobueze and James Okolie-Osemene

Chapter 9. The framing strategies of the Niger Delta Avengers.

Temitope B. Oriola and Ibikunle Adeakin

O autorze

Cyril Obi, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, USA.

Temitope B. Oriola, University of Alberta, Canada.