Full Description
As Nigeria grapples with critical homeland security challenges, Homeland Security and Terrorism in Nigeria: Crises, Climate Change, and Counterterrorism analyzes these crises to deepen understanding of the Nigerian security dilemma and to seek pathways to a more secure homeland. This book examines the nature and dimensions of the security challenges, focusing on terrorism and its stranglehold on Nigeria's peaceful existence. Leveraging a multi-disciplinary approach, this study combines a range of perspectives cutting across criminology, political science, sociology, history, international relations, and strategic studies to dissect the subject and problem. Sheriff Folarin, Abiodun Raufu, Godwyns Agbude, and the contributors explore the origins, dynamics, and character of terrorism in Nigeria. They also examine the changing nature of Nigeria's security architecture as well as adaptive coping mechanisms and counterterror measures in the homeland. This book is a treasure for strategic and security analysts, Nigerian and African security governance scholars, political scientists, and other students and scholars interested in researching Nigeria.
Contents
Foreword
C. Jaja Nwanegbo
Preface
Introduction: Terrorism and Homeland Security in Nigeria: The Problématique
Sheriff Folarin, Abiodun Raufu and Godwyns Agbude
Chapter 1: Homeland Security Issues in Nigeria
Sheriff Folarin and Chelsea Betek
Chapter 2: Overview and Origin of Terrorism in Nigeria
Abiodun Raufu
Chapter 3: Terrorism and Human Security: Theoretical Perspectives
Kester Onor and Samuel Oni
Chapter 4: Understanding Contexts: Terrorism vs Insurgency and Nigeria's Security Architecture
Anthony Oladoyin and Faith Olanrewaju
Chapter 5: Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and Terrorism in Nigeria
Edidiong Mendie
Chapter 6: Other Critical Security Issues and Domestic Terrorism Dynamics
Obinna Ezeihuoma
Chapter 7: Effects of Terrorism on Nigeria
Oluwakemi Udoh, Fadeke Olu-Owolabi and Moyosoluwa Dele-Dada
Chapter 8: Nigeria's Internal Security Measures and Counterterrorism Strategy
Abiodun Raufu
Chapter 9: Nigeria and Global War on Terrorism
Emmanuel Anabiri and Nicholas Erameh
Chapter 10: Homeland Security: Lessons from Other Lands
Olaniyi Ayodele, Oluwatosin Ifaloye and Eniye Christian-Dubekeme
Chapter 11: Finding Solutions to Homeland Security Issues in Nigeria
Godwyns Agbude
Conclusion
Sheriff Folarin, Abiodun Raufu, and Godwyns Agbude
About the Editors
About the Contributors
