173 research outputs found
Richard Jackson, Eamon Murphy & Scott Poynting (Eds.) Contemporary State Terrorism: Theory and Practice.
No full textNew York: Routledge, 2010.. 242 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-49801-2. US 43,77 (paperback) Reviewed by Oluwaseun Bamidele</div
Survival/coping strategies of women in Internally Displaced People’s (IDPs) camps : a study In New Kuchingoro camp, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Nigeria
No full textThesis (PhD (Development Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2022.The dearth of information on women in many internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps has established a gap in humanitarian aid, survival, coping and livelihood concerns of women in the New Kuchingoro IDPs camp, in Abuja, Nigeria. This study investigates the survival and coping strategies of women in the New Kuchingoro Internally Displaced Person’s camp, with a view of underscoring women internal displacement in regional and local contexts as a result of insurgency. It addresses concerns as to the humanitarian support, coping strategies, and the current patterns of survival of the women in IDPs camp. The study employed a qualitative approach, which is descriptive, explanatory and ethnographic in design. It adopted, for interpretation of women’s coping and survival strategies, Folkman and Lazarus’ transactional theory of stress and coping, and Chambers and Conway’s sustainable livelihoods, as theories. Findings show that the bulwark of Internally Displaced Women’s humanitarian assistance comes from non-governmental agencies, religious organisations, and philanthropists. There is poor response to women’s survival and coping needs by the governmental agencies which makes the humanitarian aid inadequate and overstretched, subjecting women to festering hardship. Findings also show that their ability to augment their livelihood with commercial activities such as trading outside the camp, is thwarted by security constraints. The implication of this is that the coping and survival strategies adopted by the women in the New Kuchingoro camp are unreliable, as their own effort and contribution to their survival is relatively insignificant. They only contribute a small portion to their daily needs, which means that they must be dependent on the inadequate support of the non-governmental agencies, religious organisations and philanthropists, which they use for micro-scale subsistence farming, to survive. The study reveals that the women augment the assistance received with other livelihood activities like social networking, buying and selling of goods, food preparation, bartering, fish selling, and begging. Through these, they demonstrate their income-generating prowess, basic marketing abilities and enterprises. Findings also show that the women are industrious, business-minded and hardworking women, who can use cash donations for productive livelihood activities. They use the petty funds as capital to acquire raw materials, equipment, and simple tools, which they could use for several productive activities, rather than being totally dependent on humanitarian aid. Nevertheless, the study reveals that women, upon relocating to the camp, are more likely to face overwhelming challenges like lack of shelter, food, clothing, and health services. However, they struggle to overcome these constraints by sharing industry and their micro-scale commercial enterprise. The study concludes that women are insistent on remaining in the IDPs camp until they are assured of security and genuine means of earning a livelihood outside the camp. In terms of humanitarian assistance, the study concludes that state agencies such as National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, and, the National Emergency Management Agency must, as a matter of urgency, engage in and coordinate their activities with the non-government agencies, religious organisations, and philanthropists to solve the many problems confronting people living over long periods in IDP camps.Anthropology and ArchaeologyPhD (Development Studies)Unrestricte
Concrete & Pavement Crack Dataset
No full textTitle: Crack Detection in Concrete and Pavement using Convolutional Neural NetworksSummary: This dataset contains 30,000 images of concrete and pavement surfaces, classified into two categories: crack and non-crack. The images were obtained from the Nigerian Army University Biu in Borno state, Nigeria, and collected by Omoebamije Oluwaseun, a civil engineering student, for his final year project. The images were collected using a DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise drone (for the high-ups) and a smartphone (for the ones beneath the average window height). The dataset was saved in RGB, JPEG format and downsized to 227 x 227 pixels.Content: The dataset consists of two folders: "positive" and "negative", containing images of cracked and non-cracked concrete surfaces, respectively. Each image in the dataset is in JPEG format, with a resolution of 227 x 227 pixels in RGB format.Usefulness: This dataset can be used for training and testing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for crack detection in concrete. The dataset has been used by the author to achieve over 98% accuracy on his model, and it can be used for research purposes only. The author must be properly referenced if the dataset is used for any purpose.Details:Source: Nigerian Army University Biu, Borno state, NigeriaCollector: Omoebamije OluwaseunFormat: RGB, JPEGResolution: 227 x 227 pixelsClasses: crack, non-crackTotal images: 30,00
Civilian Joint Task Force’ (CJTF) – A Community Security Option: A Comprehensive and Proactive Approach of Reducing Terrorism
No full textSince the Boko Haram uprising in 2009, the Nigerian government has employed various strategies as counter-terrorism measures to stem the atrocities of the group. These strategies include amnesty negotiations, implementation of emergency law in the northeast, increase in security spending to the deployment of military force. In the midst of these security measures, the civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) emerged, first as a community effort, and later as a joint effort with the security forces to help fight Boko Haram. The civilian JTF has helped recover towns and villages from Boko Haram, rescued women in the northeast and helped identify Boko Haram members shielded by some local people. Although doubts have been expressed in some quatres that the civilian JTF could transform into ethnic militias, the Boko Haram security threat neutralized by the group indicates an untapped security potential in Nigerian communities. However, one approach that has yet to be pursued is community security option. Community security option is a model built around proactive citizen-driven communal response. This article explains the role of civilian JTF and how civilian JTF can be used to investigate terrorism in Nigeria. This article will contribute to the discourse on the imperative of African-inspired mechanisms to solving African security problems
Review: Christopher Cramer, Laura Hammond, and Johan Pottier (eds.), Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges (2011) Buchbesprechung: Christopher Cramer, Laura Hammond, and Johan Pottier (Hrsg.), Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges (2011)
No full textReview of the edited volume: Christopher Cramer, Laura Hammond, and Johan Pottier (eds.), Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges, Leiden: Brill, 2011, ISBN 978-9-00420-312-9, 192 pp.Besprechung des Sammelbandes: Christopher Cramer, Laura Hammond, and Johan Pottier (Hrsg.), Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges, Leiden: Brill, 2011, ISBN 978-9-00420-312-9, 192 Seite
A Survey about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation in Nigeria
No full textData Survey on the Awareness and Risk Perception of COVID-19 in Nigeri
Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa (James Howard Smith and Rosalind I J Hackett, eds)
No full textRESSURGIMENTO DA MILÍCIA EM OGONILAND: PERSPECTIVA SOCIOECONÔMICA
No full textMilitant activities, which are mostly localized in Ogoniland, Nigeria, have remained a threat to the security of the country since the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa and nine Ogoni members when they were hanged during military rule. As a way of drawing attention to itself, the militant Ogoni group initiated violence campaigns which resulted in the massive killing of many multinational oil workers and security forces. To understand how militancy came to be such a Gordian knot in Nigeria’s contemporary security situation, one should have an understanding of Ogoniland’s reality as well as the social and economic history.Atividades paramilitares, que estão na sua maior parte localizadas em Ogoniland, Nigéria, têm constituído uma ameaça à segurança do país desde a morte de Keeen Saro-Wiwa e os nove membros Ogoni, quando os mesmos foram enforcados durante o regime militar. Como meio de atrair atenção para si, o grupo Ogoni iniciou campanhas de violência que resultaram em assassinatos em massa de trabalhadores de petrolíferas e de forças de segurança. Para entender como a milícia tornou-se um nó Górgio de matéria securitária contemporânea da Nigéria, é necessário entender a realidade da Ogoniland assim como sua história socioeconômica
Book Review: NGOs, Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution: Measuring the Impact of NGOs on Intergovernmental Organisations by Daniela Irrera
No full text“There's No Thing as a Whole Story”: Storytelling and the Healing of Sexual Violence Survivors among Women and Girls in Acoliland, Northern Uganda
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