Research Catalog

Title

Oil and insurgency in the Niger Delta : managing the complex politics of petroviolence / edited by Cyril Obi and Siri Aas Rustad.

Publication

London : Zed, c2011.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Obi, Cyril.
• Rustad, Siri Aas.
• Nordiska Afrikainstitutet

Description

ix, 255 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Offering up-to-date and comprehensive analysis, this title combines empirically-based and analytic chapters. It explains the causes of the escalation in violence, the various actors involved, and the policy challenges faced with regard to conflict management/resolution and the options for peace.

Series Statement

Africa now

Uniform Title

Africa now (Zed Books)

Alternative Title

Managing the complex politics of petro-violence

Subject

• Insurgency > Nigeria > Niger River Delta
• Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects > Nigeria > Niger River Delta

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-244) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Causes of conflict, state (in)capacities. The Nigerian state, oil and the Niger Delta crisis / Ukoha Ukiwo -- Capacity and governance deficits in the response to the Niger Delta crisis / Babatunde A. Ahonsi -- The struggle for resource control and violence in the Niger Delta / Rhuks Ako -- The Niger Delta crisis and the question of access to justice / Engobo Emeseh -- The Ijaw National Congress and conflict resolution in the Niger Delta / Ibaba Samuel Ibaba -- Changing the paradigm of pacification : oil and militarization in Nigeria's Delta region / Charles Ukeje -- Nigeria's oil diplomacy and the management of the Niger Delta crisis / Kayode Soremekun -- pt. 2. Conflict actors' dynamics. 'Mend me' : the movement for the emancipation of the Niger Delta and the empowerment of violence / Morten Bøås -- Popular and criminal violence as instruments of struggle in the Niger Delta region / Augustine Ikelegbe -- Swamped with weapons : the proliferation of illicit small arms and light weapons in the Niger Delta / Nils Duquet -- Women's protests in the Niger Delta region / Oluwatoyin Oluwaniyi -- pt. 3. Oil MNCs' response(s). Corporate social responsibility and the Niger Delta conflict : issues and prospects / Uwafiokun Idemudia -- Labelling oil, contesting governance : Legaloil.com, the GMoU and profiteering in the Niger Delta / Anna Zalik -- Conclusion : amnesty and post-amnesty peace, is the window of opportunity closing for the Niger Delta? / Cyril Obi and Siri Aas Rustad.

ISBN

• 1848138075 (pbk)
• 1848138083 (hbk)
• 9781848138070 (pbk)
• 9781848138087 (hbk)

LCCN

^^2011411183

OCLC

• 664666283
• SCSB-11106786

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library