Oil and insurgency in the Niger Delta : managing the complex politics of petro-violence /

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Other Authors: Obi, Cyril, Rustad, Siri Aas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : New York : Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, ©2011.
Series:Africa now (Zed Books)
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Table of 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.