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| Title: | Oil multinational corporations, environmental irresponsibility and turbulent peace in the Niger Delta |
| Authors: | Agbiboa, Daniel E. Maiangwa, Benjamin |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Periodical: | Africa Spectrum (ISSN 0002-0397) |
| Volume: | 48 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 71-83 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | oil companies multinational enterprises Niger Delta conflict amnesty environmental degradation |
| External link: | https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/649/ |
| Abstract: | For many oil-bearing communities in petro-states around the world, the net effects of oil exploration have not only been devastating, but have also highlighted the double standards that are often applied by oil multinational corporations (MNCs). These organisations are far more likely to demand environmental and social mitigation efforts in the developed world than they are in a developing country. This article seeks to demonstrate how the continued irresponsible activities of oil MNCs - specifically Shell - have fuelled restive conditions of ethnic militancy, brazen human rights abuses, environmental degradation and unsustainable peace in the Niger Delta. The article particularly assesses the impact of the 2009 amnesty programme that was initiated to halt the downward spiral into violence in Nigeria's Niger Delta and resolve the region's socio-economic challenges. The conclusion of this article canvasses for greater social-ecological justice as a way forwards in addressing the Niger Delta conflict. Bibliogr., sum. in English and German. [Journal abstract] |
