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
Analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. This book 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.
Cyril Obi is a Senior Researcher, and Leader, Research Cluster on Conflict, Displacement and Transformation at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. He has been on leave since 2005 from the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos, where is an Associate Research Professor. In 2004, Dr Obi became the second Claude Ake Visiting Professor at the University of Uppsala. He had earlier received international recognition/awards: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Governance Institute Fellow in 1993; Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar 1994; SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Visiting Fellow in 1996; Visiting Fellow to the Africa Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden; and Visiting Fellow and Senior Research Associate, St. Antony's College, Oxford University in 2000. In 2001, he was a Fellow of the 21st Century Trust, Conference on 'Rethinking Security for the 21st Century, also held at Oxford. 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. Dr Obi has been a guest editor of journals such as African and Asian Studies, and African Journal of International Affairs. His most recent book co-edited with Fantu Cheru, is titled: The Rise of China and India in Africa (published by Zed, 2010). Siri Camilla Aas Rustad is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO), Denmark. The Nordic Africa Institute (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) is a center for research, documentation and information on modern Africa. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, the Institute is dedicated to providing timely, critical and alternative research and analysis of Africa and to co-operation with African researchers. As a hub and a meeting place for a growing field of research and analysis the Institute strives to put knowledge of African issues within reach for scholars, policy makers, politicians, media, students and the general public. The Institute is financed jointly by the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden).
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*
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*
An invaluable resource for understanding the complex and
interrelated dynamics of violence, exploitation, resistance and
social change in the region.
*Pambazuka News*
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