Overview

The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns. This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers of the conflict, as well as the ways the crises spawned by the political economy of oil and contradictions within Nigeria's ethnic politics have contributed to the morphing of initially poorly coordinated, largely non-violent protests into a pan-Delta insurgency. Approaching the issue from a number of perspectives, the book offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis available of the varied dimensions of the conflict. Combining empirically-based and analytic chapters, it attempts to explain the causes of the escalation in violence, the various actors, levels and dynamics involved, and the policy challenges faced with regard to conflict management/resolution and the options for peace. It also examines the role of oil as a commodity of global strategic significance, addressing the relationship between oil, energy security and development in the Niger Delta.

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Author:   Cyril Obi ,  Siri Aas Rustad ,  Ukoha Ukiwo ,  Babatunde Ahonsi
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 15.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9781848138070

ISBN 10:   1848138075
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   10 February 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Petro-Violence in the Niger Delta: The Complex Politics of an Insurgency - Cyril Obi and Siri Aas Rustad Part I: Causes of Conflict, State (In)capacities The Nigerian State, Oil and the Niger Delta Crisis - Ukiwo Ukoha Capacity and Governance Deficits in the Response to the Niger Delta Crisis - Babatunde A. Ahonsi The Struggle for Resource Control and Violence in the Niger Delta - Rhuks Ako The Niger Delta Crisis and the Question of Access to Justice - Engobo Emeseh The Ijaw National Congress and Conflict Resolution in the Niger Delta - Ibaba Samuel Ibaba Changing the Paradigm of Pacification: Oil and Militarization in Nigeria's Niger Delta - Charles Ukeje Nigeria's Oil Diplomacy and the Management of the Niger Delta Crisis - Kayode Soremekun Part II: Conflict Actors' Dynamics 'Mend Me' the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta and the Empowerment of Violence - Morten Boås Popular and Criminal Violence as Instruments of Struggle in the Niger Delta Region - Augustine Ikelegbe Swamped with Weapons: The Proliferation of Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Niger Delta - Nils Duquet Women's Protests in the Niger Delta Region - Oluwatoyin Oluwaniyi Part III: Oil MNCs' Responses Corporate Social Responsibility and the Niger Delta Conflict: Issues and Prospects - Uwafiokun Idemudia Labelling Oil, Contesting Governance: LegalOil.com, the GMoU and Profiteering in the Niger Delta - Anna Zalik Conclusion: Amnesty and Post-Amnesty Peace: Is the Window of Opportunity Closing for the Niger Delta? - Cyril Obi and Siri Aas Rustad

Reviews

The crisis in the oil-producing Niger delta - a crisis at once political, economic, ecological and social - stands at the heart of contemporary Nigerian political economy. Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta will become the reference point for future debates on the origins and dynamics of conflict and political violence in the Nigerian oilfields. Obi and Rustad's collection charts the descent from Ken Saro-Wiwa's non-violent mobilization of the Ogoni in the 1980s and 1990s to the insurgency of the present. A pathbreaking book containing important insights into the complex landscape of oil, politics and the so-called 'resource curse'. Empirically rich and conceptually rigorous, this collection of essays is a tour de force. - Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley

'The crisis in the oil-producing Niger delta - a crisis at once political, economic, ecological and social - stands at the heart of contemporary Nigerian political economy. Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta will become the reference point for future debates on the origins and dynamics of conflict and political violence in the Nigerian oilfields. Obi and Rustad's collection charts the descent from Ken Saro-Wiwa's non-violent mobilization of the Ogoni in the 1980s and 1990s to the insurgency of the present. A pathbreaking book containing important insights into the complex landscape of oil, politics and the so-called resource curse . Empirically rich and conceptually rigorous, this collection of essays is a tour de force.' Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley 'Obi and Rustad bring together some of the world's leading analysts on the Niger Delta insurgency for a gripping expose of the roots of the conflict and how actors in the region have responded to the crisis. The authors offer a deep, sobering, and multi-dimensional understanding of how the Niger Delta's descent into conflict came about and why it persists. This book will quickly become required reading for both scholars and practitioners interested in untangling these complex threads in order to promote peace, democracy, and development in the Niger Delta, and in similar resource-driven conflicts as well.' Darren Kew, Associate Professor, Conflict Resolution Program, University of Massachusetts 'An invaluable resource for understanding the complex and interrelated dynamics of violence, exploitation, resistance and social change in the region.' Pambazuka News

Author Information

Cyril Obi is a Senior Researcher, and Leader, Research Cluster on Conflict, Displacement and Transformation at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. He is a contributing editor to the Review of African Political Economy, and is on the editorial board of African Journal of International Affairs, the African Security Review, and the Review of Leadership in Africa. His most recent book co-edited with Fantu Cheru, is titled: The Rise of China and India in Africa (Zed, 2010). Siri Aas Rustad is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

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