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 Aas Rustad is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. In her research she mainly focuses on Post-conflict natural resource management, with a particular focus on Nigeria. Other research interests include natural resources role in conflict and the geography of conflict.
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
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