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Horror in paradise : frameworks for understanding the crises of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria / edited by Christopher LaMonica and J. Shola Omotola.
- Title
- Horror in paradise : frameworks for understanding the crises of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria / edited by Christopher LaMonica and J. Shola Omotola.
- Author
- LaMonica, Christopher.
- Publication
- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, 2013.
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- Additional Authors
- Omotola, J. Shola.
- Description
- xxvi, 303 p. : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- African world series
- Uniform Title
- Carolina Academic Press African world series.
- Subject
- Human security > Niger River Delta Region
- Petroleum industry and trade > Corrupt practices > Nile River Delta Region
- Resource allocation > Niger River Delta Region
- Environmental justice > Niger River Delta Region
- Civil society > Niger River Delta Region
- Ethnic conflict > Niger River Delta Region
- Peace-building > Niger River Delta Region
- Niger River Delta Region (Nigeria) > Social conditions
- Niger River Delta Region (Nigeria) > Economic conditions
- Niger River Delta Region (Nigeria) > Government policy
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Why the Niger Delta region of Nigeria matters / Christopher LaMonica, J. Shola Omotola -- Oil and cultural crisis: the case of the Niger Delta / S.O. Aghalino -- Women and the Niger Delta question / J. Shola Omotola -- Environmental justice, democracy, and the inevitability of cultural change in Nigeria : a critical analysis of the Niger Delta dilemma / Kelly Bryan Ovie Ejumudo -- Minorities and resource allocation in a transitional state : the Nigeria experience / Ekanade Olumide -- Notes from the field : challenges to democratic elections in Nigeria / Mourtada Deme and Bodunrin Adebo -- The role of leadership in promoting successful dialogue in a fragile state : contextualizing the Yar'adua-Jonathan administration in the Niger Delta / Uzoechi Nwagbara -- 'Agony in the garden' : incongruity of governance and the travails of Port Harcourt City, Niger Delta, Nigeria, 1912-2010 / Akachi Odoemene --^ Charting pathways to development in the riverine areas of the Niger Delta region / O.J. Offiong and Jude Cocodia -- Moving beyond ideological approaches to the crises of the Niger Delta / Christopher LaMonica -- From operation law and order to operation restore hope : human security crisis in the Niger Delta / Lere Amusan -- Re-framing the public sphere through community-based resistance : the role of the media and civil society in a fragile state / Uzoechi Nwagbara -- Small arms and light weapons (SAlW) proliferation and instability in the Niger Delta : an analysis of the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) process / George I.J. Obuoforibo -- Armed militancy in the Niger Delta : quintessential play-off of sub-regional economic disparities / Franklins A. Sanubi -- The amnesty programme and the future of the Niger Delta: an overview of the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) strategy for sustainable peace / Atare Otite and Nathaniel Umukoro --^ Amnesty and peace-building in the Niger Delta : addressing the frustration-aggression trap / Ibaba Samuel Ibaba -- The Niger Delta Amnesty Programme : what manner of peace deal? / Akachi Odoemene -- Why "new civilizing arrangements" are required for the restoration of paradise / Christopher LaMonica, J. Shola Omotola.
- ISBN
- 9781611633559 (alk. paper)
- 1611633559 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2013006352
- OCLC
- 828056164
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library