For the latest episode of the African Peacebuilding Network’s Kujenga Amani podcast, we sat down with Search for Common Ground‘s vice president of programs, Lena Slachmuijlder, an accomplished journalist, editor,…
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Democracy, Development and Governance
Resolving the Omo Onile land-related crisis in Lagos, Nigeria
by Taiwo Owoeye
Part of the crisis threatening peace in Africa is the struggle over land and natural resources. This crisis is rooted in a series of structural, historical, and socioeconomic factors. It is also driven by increasing urbanization, land-grabbing, demographic pressure, inadequate property rights, and conflicting land tenure systems. This essay is based on a land-related crisis […]
Interviews
Life as an APN Alumnus: An Interview with Dr. Fana Gebresenbet
by African Peacebuilding Network
African Peacebuilding Network: Can you begin by telling us about yourself and your research prior to receiving your APN grant? Fana Gebresenbet: I was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I completed my first degree in plant sciences at Haramaya University in 2003 and my master’s degree in physical land resources at Ghent University (Belgium) in […]
Editorials
Call for Proposals: African Peacebuilding Network-Social Science Research Council 2019 Research Grants
by African Peacebuilding Network
In order to advance African debates on peacebuilding and promote African perspectives, the APN offers competitive research grants annually and is currently accepting grant proposals for the 2019 cycle.
Special Issues
The State and the Environmental Clean-Up in Ogoni: Building Peace or the Continuation of Oil Politics in the Niger Delta?
by Kialee Nyiayaana
In 2008, the Nigerian government invited the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) to undertake an environmental impact assessment of oil exploitation in Ogoniland. The government’s action was in response to claims by Ogoni people that Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil company which has been extracting oil from Ogoniland for decades destroyed their ecosystem through gas flaring […]
Special Issues
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Process and Environmental Governance: Implications for Peace and Security in Nigeria’s …
Special Issues
Women, Petro-Insurgency, and Peacebuilding in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region
by Abosede Omowumi Babatunde
While some recent studies have focused on the gender dimension of the struggle for environmental justice in the Niger Delta, limited attention is devoted to the role of women in the oil-related conflict and the implications for peacebuilding in the Niger Delta. The feminist essentialist notion that women are naturally peaceful is being challenged by […]
Special Issues
Special Issue: The Present and Future of Peacebuilding in the Niger Delta
by Kenneth Chukwuemeka Nwoko
Since 2009 when the Nigerian government declared a Presidential Amnesty for militants in the restive oil-producing Niger Delta, the fragile peace in the region has faced several challenges. The situation is not unconnected to the continued environmental degradation resulting from the operations of the oil industry, weak implementation of policies and developmental projects in the […]