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By Patricia Taft, Nate Haken (auth.)
This ebook takes a quantitative examine ICT-generated occasion info to spotlight present developments and concerns in Nigeria on the neighborhood, nation and nationwide degrees. with no emphasizing a selected coverage or time table, it presents context and point of view at the relative spatial-temporal distribution of clash components in Nigeria. The research of violence at kingdom and native degrees unearths a fractal trend of overlapping ecosystems of clash probability that needs to be understood for potent, conflict-sensitive techniques to improvement and direct clash mitigation efforts. relocating past analyses that use a extensive non secular, ethnic or ancient lens, this booklet makes a speciality of the country’s 774 neighborhood govt parts and accommodates over 10,000 incidents coded by way of situation, date and indicator to spot styles in clash possibility among 2009 and 2013. it's the first ebook to trace clash in Nigeria in this interval, which covers the Amnesty contract within the Niger Delta and the delivery of Boko Haram within the North. additionally it is clash danger warmth maps of every nation and trend-lines of violence. The authors finish with a dialogue of the nuanced elements that bring about escalating violence, similar to source festival and tendencies in terrorism in this severe aspect in Nigeria’s background. Violence in Nigeria is designed as a reference for researchers and practitioners operating in safeguard, peacebuilding and improvement, together with coverage makers, intelligence specialists, diplomats, nationwide protection and place of birth safeguard specialists. Advanced-level scholars learning public coverage, diplomacy or desktop technological know-how also will locate this ebook important as a secondary textbook or reference.
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It was reported that a dialogue concerning the Amnesty law and provisions was being held with four Nigerian governors present, although none were harmed. In April and May, it was reported that hundreds of youth protested charges brought against a former Delta state governor over corruption. In November, it was reported that youth unemployment and criminality was spiraling due to inadequacies in the Amnesty program jobs training program. In 2011, violence and incidents of insecurity concerning robberies and other criminal activities that plagued Warri in the previous year persisted.
No further details were reported in the case by year’s end. Notable events in 2011 included a February clash over the local sharing of a pipeline security contract with NNPC that reportedly led to three deaths. Then, in April, one person reportedly died following the conclusion of governorship and House of Assembly elections that caused a community disagreement over the results. A resulting protest reportedly led to the deaths of two more individuals. In the first half of 2012, there were incidents of clashes between rival gangs as well as a May youth protest regarding the slow pace of the development of a road between Port Harcourt and Warri which included local infrastructure and development projects.
Fig. 1 2 Niger Delta Overview Port Harcourt Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, has the highest population of all the state’s LGAs. Given the high density of the urban population, conflict risk issues include robberies, kidnappings, and gang/cult-related violence. As the political capital of the state, protests and demonstrations are common. In 2009 alone, over 50 fatalities were reported, mostly related to attempted kidnapping and rescues. These kidnappings ranged from the abductions of children of prominent community businessmen to the attempted abductions of foreign employers of oil companies.