Unravelling Community Policing as a Panacea for Boko Haram Stalemate

Sogo A. Olofinbiyi (), Witness Maluleke () and Khomotjo Lekgau ()
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Sogo A. Olofinbiyi: University of Venda
Witness Maluleke: University of Limpopo
Khomotjo Lekgau: University of Limpopo

A chapter in Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa, 2022, pp 81-97 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Over ten years of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria has placed the Islamist Jihadist sect as the most notorious and intractable insurgent group that has ever featured in the country. They have irrepressibly posed great threats to national security by destructively attacking organisations, both local and international, and laying serious foundations for engrained underdevelopment of the Nigerian state. This study adopts a qualitative methodological approach of in-depth interviews to examine the phenomenon and suggest a community policing approach—among other preventive policy recommendations—as a new paradigm shift in counterterrorism strategy to resolve the crisis in Nigeria, as well as prevent future occurrence of such menace in this part of sub-Saharan Africa.

Keywords: Boko Haram; Community policing; Conflict resolution; Terrorism; The Nigerian state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92474-4_10

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