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Title: | The Economy of Conflict in the Oil Rich Niger Delta Region of Nigeria |
Author: | Ikelegbe, Augustine |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | African and Asian Studies |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 23-55 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | conflict political economy petroleum Economics and Trade international relations Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations Law, Human Rights and Violence Military, Defense and Arms |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1163/156920906775768291 |
Abstract: | Economies of war underpinned by greed and opportunities have been posited to underlie the causality, dynamics and sustenance of conflicts, particularly Africa's resource wars. This study examines the economy of conflict in the resource conflicts in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It shows that a conflict economy comprising an intensive and violent struggle for resource opportunities, inter and intra communal/ethnic conflicts over resources, and the theft and trading in refined and crude oil has blossomed since the 1990s. It examines the interfaces between the Nigerian State, multinational oil companies, the international community, and youth militias with the economy. The paper argues that though the economy did not cause the conflict, it has become a part of the resistance and a resource for sustaining it. The economy underpins an extensive proliferation of arms and the institutions of violence and the pervasiveness of crime, violence and communal/ethnic conflicts. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |