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1 results foundAuthor: Ojakorotu, Victor Title: Checkmating the Resurgence of Oil Violence in the Niger Delta of Nigeria Summary: This book is a collection of excellent academic materials by experienced and renowned scholars who have critically analyzed the devastating age-long oil violence in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Beyond examining the origin and nature of the conflict, it also emphasizes the way forward for the Niger Delta, based on the various empirical studies by the contributors on the current developments in the region. Some of the chapters extensively interrogated the peace and development implications of President Yar‘Adua‘s amnesty policy on the Niger Delta since 2009. Although ‗subdued oil violence‘ has been around for several decades, the emergence of organized non-state armed groups in the 1990s has added a new and explosive dimension to the Delta imbroglio. Violent protests and the threat of outright rebellion against the state are now ubiquitous. Clearly, environmental activism and militancy are a direct response to the cumulative years of sustained environmental degradation, despoliation, hazards, impunity, human rights violations, repression, underdevelopment and outright neglect of the region by the Nigerian state and the multinational oil companies. Since the Niger Delta conflict is not a one-sided issue but a complexity of many interrelated problems, this book will not only expose students, researchers, professionals and statesmen/policy makers to the current developments in the region, but it also provide answers to some pertinent contemporary questions concerning the ‗oil gift‘, which has become a curse to the host communities of the Niger Delta in Nigeria. Details: Johannesburg: Monash University, 2010. 168p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 5, 2012 at http://www.iags.org/Niger_Delta_book.pdf Year: 2010 Country: Nigeria URL: http://www.iags.org/Niger_Delta_book.pdf Shelf Number: 126278 Keywords: Natural Resources (Nigeria)Oil (Nigeria)Violence (Nigeria)Violent Conflict (Nigeria) |