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| Title: | No war, no peace: the example of peacebuilding in the post-amnesty Niger Delta region of Nigeria |
| Author: | Osumah, Oarhe |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Periodical: | African Security Review (ISSN 2154-0128) |
| Volume: | 22 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 244-263 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | Niger Delta conflict peacebuilding amnesty |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2013.838793 |
| Abstract: | The armed conflict over crude petroleum oil in the Niger Delta has raged for several decades. A host of peace initiatives have been adopted by the Nigerian state to address it, but with minimal impact. The amnesty offer to repentant militias in 2009 by President Umaru Yar'Adua's administration is one of the most recent and broadest peace initiatives by the Nigerian government intended to end the general tendency to warfare and the absence of peace in the Niger Delta. This article, based on secondary sources, examines the components of the amnesty, the challenges it faces and their implications for peacebuilding in the Niger Delta. It finds that though the programme has engendered relative peace, the issues and grievances that occasioned the general tendency to warfare and absence of peace in the region - such as inequitable distribution of oil revenue, environmental degradation, and underdevelopment - are not properly articulated in the disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration components of the programme. Thus, the article holds that the prevailing situation in the region largely approximates a swinging pendulum of no war, no peace. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
