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Niger Delta
Civil Society and the Global Oil Complex: Accessing Civil Society Engagements in Nigeria’s Niger Delta
Introduction Many studies have interrogated the interactions between global oil actors and civil society, particularly the implications for vulnerable indigenous…
Renegotiating Gender during Fieldwork in Conflict-Affected Settings: Overcoming Some Challenges
Despite the ethical challenges that conflict settings pose, conducting fieldwork in such places provides great opportunities to generate data essential…
Bullets and Ballots: Exploring Insecurities and the 2019 Elections in Nigeria
Several groups have appealed to the government and politicians not to make pronouncements or take actions that may escalate existing…
The State and the Environmental Clean-Up in Ogoni: Building Peace or the Continuation of Oil Politics in the Niger Delta?
In 2008, the Nigerian government invited the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) to undertake an environmental impact assessment of oil…
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Process and Environmental Governance: Implications for Peace and Security in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region
At the heart of the violent conflict in the Niger Delta region is the struggle over a non-renewable resource—crude oil—Nigeria’s…
Women, Petro-Insurgency, and Peacebuilding in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region
While some recent studies have focused on the gender dimension of the struggle for environmental justice in the Niger Delta,…
Special Issue: The Present and Future of Peacebuilding in the Niger Delta
Since 2009 when the Nigerian government declared a Presidential Amnesty for militants in the restive oil-producing Niger Delta, the fragile…
Life as an APN Alumnus: An Interview with Dr. Abosede Babatunde
The Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Abosede Babatunde, an…
Moving the Battlefields: Foreign Jurisdictions and Environmental Justice in Nigeria
This is a cross-post from Items, a Social Science Research Council digital forum that renews and reimagines the Council’s former…