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Book Review:"Natural Resources, Conflict, and Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Niger Delta"
Full text linkNatural Resources, Conflict, and Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Niger Delta
Okechukwu Ukaga, Ukoha O. Ukiwo and Ibaba Samuel Ibaba (eds.)
Routledge, London, 2012, pp. 174.
ISBN 13: 978-0-415-80691-6 Hardbac
Privatised Statehood and the Paradox of Counterterrorism in Nigeria: A Political Economy Perspective
No full textHow does the privatisation of the Nigerian State undermine its capacity to combat terrorism? This paper is developed to answer this question. Using the political economy perspective, it interrogates the paradoxical relationship between state privatisation and counterterrorism effectiveness in Nigeria. Anchored in literature that critiques the Nigerian State's failure to achieve autonomy from elite capture, the analysis identifies privatisation as manifesting through ethnicised political domination, patronage-based governance, systemic corruption, and the militarisation of electoral politics. These dynamics have commodified violence, entrenched inter-ethnic rivalries, and subordinated the public good to narrow elite interests. The resultant governance vacuum and socioeconomic marginalisation create structural conditions conducive to terrorism, while simultaneously weakening institutional mechanisms for counterterrorism. The paper argues that counterterrorism strategies in Nigeria will remain compromised as long as the State is privatised. It concludes by advocating for comprehensive state reform aimed at restoring public accountability and reorienting the State toward the pursuit of collective security
The SPDC and sustainable development in the Niger Delta
No full textPurpose – This paper aims to examine the place of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in the sustainable development of the Niger Delta. Design/methodology/approach – To achieve this objective, the paper takes an overview of the oil industry and the Niger Delta. The paper further evaluates the sustainable policy of the SPDC, and highlights the strengths and weaknesses. Findings – The paper establishes that oil industry activities have undermined the sustainable development of the region. Although the SPDC has created wealth for Nigeria, the wealth does not benefit the Niger Delta people due to the culture of politics which promotes individual and parochial interests as against public good. SPDC's investments in the oil producing communities suffer a number of set backs which include faults in implementation strategy and structural deformities in the development process of the country. Also of note is the environment unfriendly operation of the SPDC that pollutes the environment and induces unsustainable exploitation of natural resources and collapse of local economies. Practical implications – The paper suggests political reforms and changes in oil legislations that will direct the oil wealth to the benefit of the people. Originality/value – The paper demonstrates that SPDC's sustainable development strategy in the Niger Delta has gaps that constrain efficiency. This understanding can guide the company to reposition its sustainable development programmes and thus become more beneficial to the oil producing communities.Nigeria, Oil industry, Social responsibility, Sustainable development
Terrorism in Liberation Struggles: Interrogating the Engagement Tactics of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
No full textThe Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) emerged in 2006 as an umbrella organization of militia groups in the Niger Delta, pursuing common political objectives of freedom and development. However, MEND’s engagement tactics of taking hostages, attacks on oil infrastructure and the placement of bombs and other explosive devices in public places suggest to many observers that this organization’s members should be considered terrorists. Using a perspective which views terrorism as crime, this article illustrates how MEND’s engagement tactics can be viewed as acts of terrorism
Corruption, human-rights violation, and the interface with violence in the Niger Delta
No full textThis article examines the interdependence between corruption, violations of human rights, and conflict in the Niger Delta. It is argued that corruption-induced violations have triggered conflicts that have become cyclical. The article sets out a theoretical context against which to examine the interface between corruption, human-rights violation, and conflict in the Delta, and calls for the integration of the fight against corruption into the peace-building process in the Niger Delta.This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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