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The Impact of Crises on Rebuilding the National Image: The Paradox of Nigeria’s Rebranding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper sets out to examine the ideals of rebranding in the national image rebuilding process, fetching examples from Nigeria’s experience. The discourse also examines the concepts of image and the impact of anti-social behaviour of citizens on the ...
Iyorza, Stanislaus
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Civil Conflicts and Household Food Expenditure Patterns: Evidence From Ghana

open access: yesFood and Energy Security, Volume 14, Issue 3, May/June 2025.
ABSTRACT This study employs panel survey data combined with geo‐coded information on household locations and civil conflict to examine the relationship between civil conflict and per capita food expenditure. Utilizing the panel structure and applying fixed effects models, the analysis shows that civil conflict and fatality rates significantly reduce ...
Edward Martey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Boko Haram Uprising and Islamic Revivalism in Nigeria Die Boko-Haram-Unruhen und die Wiederbelebung des Islam in Nigeria

open access: yesAfrica Spectrum, 2010
From the 1980 Maitatsine uprising to the 2009 Boko Haram uprising, Nigeria was bedevilled by ethno-religious conflicts with devastating human and material losses.
Abimbola Adesoji
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"All The Things We Could [Se]e by Now [Concerning Violence & Boko Haram], If Sigmund Freud's Wife was Your Mother": Psychoanalysis, Race, & International Political Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In response to the sonic media and ludicrosity of her time, Hortense J. Spillers' paradigmatic essay ""All the Things You Could Be by Now, If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother": Psychoanalysis and Race," transfigures Charles Mingus' melodic, cryptic ...
Ajishafe, Babajide I.
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Do Conflicts Influence the Accumulation of Bonding, Bridging, and Linking Social Capital? Insights From Cameroon

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 176-187, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Social capital is known to influence livelihoods, but how this operates in conflict situations is relatively under‐researched. Leaning on the social capital theory, we investigate the association between conflict and the dynamics of bonding, bridging and linking social capital in the neglected “Anglophone” conflict between a separatist ...
Roland Azibo Balgah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Terrorism Analysis of the April 14, 2014, Bus Terminal Bombing in Abuja, Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This Transportation Security Perspective is the fourth in a continuing series produced by the National Transportation Safety and Security Center of the Mineta Transportation Institute.
Butterworth, Bruce R., Jenkins, Brian M.
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Broken Communities: Structural Violence, Dispossession, and the Reign of Terror in Northwestern Nigeria

open access: yesPeace &Change, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 152-175, April 2025.
Abstract Why do some pastoralists join bandit groups in Nigeria? This conundrum is yet to be explored in the emerging scholarly literature on pastoral banditry in Nigeria's troubled northwest region. Whereas the upsurge in pastoralist‐related banditry has been predominantly explicated with the theoretical frameworks of ungoverned spaces and relative ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
wiley   +1 more source

Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 300-320, April 2025.
Abstract What drives public support for peace provisions? Based on intergroup attribution theory, we argue that public support for peace provisions depends on “who bears the burden of peace,” with people wanting to protect their ingroup while holding the outgroup accountable.
Amélie Godefroidt, Lala Muradova
wiley   +1 more source

Civilian Joint Task Force’ (CJTF) – A Community Security Option: A Comprehensive and Proactive Approach of Reducing Terrorism

open access: yesJournal for Deradicalization, 2016
Since the Boko Haram uprising in 2009, the Nigerian government has employed various strategies as counter-terrorism measures to stem the atrocities of the group.
Oluwaseun Bamidele
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Rescued from Boko Haram – What will it take to feel truly free? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Based on recent news report, LSE’s Mitchell Aghatise imagines the emotions and experiences of one of the girls recently rescued by the Nigerian army from the Boko Haram hideout in the Sambisa ...
Aghatise, Mitchell
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