For some people caught in conflict zones, remaining is the choice they feel they can live with.
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When conflict leads to abandoned fields, lost livestock, or altered investment decisions, it undermines food security and development.
Climate action can ease or add to crises in the Sahel region.
Conflict over land, pastoral mobility and weak governance often overlap with religious fault lines, but can’t be reduced to them.
Experts provide insights into the various actors involved in Nigeria’s security challenge, their motivation and why efforts to rein them in haven’t quite succeeded.
One hundred years after the founding of the once-mighty Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, the time might be ripe for a revival of Prairie farmer co-operatives.
Individuals, the government, faith-based groups and NGOs all offer support to those who have fled the herder-farmer conflict.
Ecowas regulations on pastoralism discourage big investment in livestock and need to be reformed in line with present day realities.
Nigeria’s new President Bola Ahmed Tinubu faces a number of challenges. But climate change cannot be ignored.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu inherits major security challenges. Job creation, poverty alleviation and inclusive growth may be the solution.
Once in office, the new president will face a myriad of challenges, chief of which is insecurity.
Spiralling insecurity is one of the biggest takeaways when considering Nigeria’s year in review, in 2022.
The interests of bandits and jihadists are converging in Nigeria and this poses a formidable threat to the country’s security.
To stem the tide of violent extremism across the Sahel region, especially northwest Nigeria, the vulnerabilities and grudges of border communities need to be properly addressed.
Violence between herdsmen and farmers in the Sahel is nothing new, but in recent years Nigeria has a noticeable upturn in violence.
Incidents of terror attack on churches in Nigeria don’t happen in a vacuum. They are driven by jihadism, pastoral conflicts and related criminality.
Labels that emphasise the social identities of the contending parties not only impede efforts to comprehend their causes but also obscure their vast dimensions.
Improved mediation skills for local leaders can help prevent the escalation of disputes and break cycles of violence.
The idea of what it means to be South Sudanese is not universally accepted in the young nation.
To end banditry, Nigeria first needs to tackle poverty, hunger and unemployment.
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Lecturer, University of Northampton
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Aston University
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Research Fellow, Obafemi Awolowo University, Regional Coordinator, Institute for Security Studies
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Professor of Sociology (Criminology, Victimology and Security Studies), University of Ibadan
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Lecturer in Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development, SOAS, University of London
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Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia
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Researcher, University of Ibadan
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PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Oslo
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Lecturer, Land Management and Land Tenure, University for Development Studies
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Visiting Scholar in the Department of Political Science and also affiliated to the Centre of Governance Innovation (GovInn), University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow, International Institute of Social Studies
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Research fellow, French Institute for Research in Africa, University of Ibadan
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Senior lecturer, University of Chicago
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PhD candidate and Research Fellow, University of Ibadan
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Associate professor, Uppsala University