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Conflict Studies Quarterly, 2023 The fight against insurgency, terrorism, banditry, militancy, and other forms of criminality has been viewed from two major perspectives by scholars, security analysts and security experts in the existing literature.
S. Adesote, Sunday Adekunle Akande
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Boko Haram Insurgency and the 2015 General Elections in Nigeria
Journal of International Studies, 2015 This is a study of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, and how it affected the 2015 General Elections in the country. The Boko Haram is a Muslim fundamentalist sect founded in 2002, but the insurgency it mounted in Nigeria in 2009 has dovetailed into ...
Emmanuel Ikechi Onah
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2022 Boko Haram (BH) insurgency in Northeastern Nigeria has been extensively studied but much scholarly attention has not been given to Operation Safe Corridor (OPSC). Yet, it remains the most significant non-kinetic approaches to BH insurgency.
S. Owonikoko
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World without a Word: Reading Silence in Selected Recent Nigerian Poetry
Journal of Language and Literature, 2022 Trauma is not a recent motif in Nigerian literature. Literary critics have copiously investigated into the trauma of Nigerian Civil War. However, the Boko Haram insurgency, which has ravaged many communities majorly in the North-East of Nigeria, has ...
Adewuyi Aremu Ayodeji
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The politics of amnesty in Nigeria: a comparative analysis of the Boko Haram and Niger Delta insurgencies [PDF]
, 2014 Special Edition issue - Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper presents a comparative analysis of the Niger Delta amnesty programme and the proposed amnesty for Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria.
Nwankpa, Michael
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A Description of MMPI-2-RF Profile of Eleven Boko Haram Terrorists
Tazkiya Journal of Psychology, 2023 Nigeria, the largest country on the continent of Africa, has been fighting wars with the proclaimed terrorist group Boko Haram. Currently, Boko Haram has between 1,500 and 2,000 fighters; most documentation about them is either a position paper or a ...
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The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare, 2021 The Islamist group, Jama’atul Alhul Sunnah Lidda’wati wal Jihad, translated as “people committed to the propagation of the Prophet’s teachings and jihad”, is commonly known as Boko Haram, which means “Western education is forbidden.” It originated in ...
Gershon Adela
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Twittering the Boko Haram Uprising in Nigeria: Investigating Pragmatic Acts in the Social Media [PDF]
, 2013 This paper investigates pragmatic acts in the discourse of tweeters and online feedback comments on the activities of Boko Haram, a terrorist group in Nigeria. The tweets and comments illustrate acts used to express revolutionary feelings and reflect
Adegoke, Adetunji, Chiluwa, Innocent
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Armed forces and society, 2022 This study interrogates the experiences of Nigerian troops in the war against Boko Haram. The paper’s contribution is bi-dimensional. First, it adds to the empirical literature on Boko Haram by analyzing the perspectives of rank-and-file troops.
Temitope B. Oriola
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The Boko Haram Conflict and Food Insecurity: Does Resilience Capacity Matter?
Journal of African Economies, 2022 Drawing from a robust identification strategy and household panel data collected before and after households were exposed to the Boko Haram conflict, this paper addresses the question of whether resilience capacity is an important factor in mitigating ...
G. Agwu
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