Nigeria

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Photos by Danielle Villasana.

The insurgent group Boko Haram has grown steadily from an organization focused in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, to the rest of Borno State, to surrounding states, and surrounding countries throughout the Chad Basin.
A key dimension of the conflict is environmental conditions, such as questions of population density and the willingness to attack non-state targets, especially those that are more exposed in rural areas.

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Environments Changing Fronts of the Conflict in Nigeria The insurgent group Boko Haram has grown steadily from an organization focused in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, to the rest of Borno State, to surrounding states, and surrounding countries throughout the Chad Basin. What is driving this expansion? Danielle Villasana’s images do not give us answers but they do direct our attention to a key dimension of the conflict, environmental conditions, such as questions of population density and the willingness to attack non-state targets,… Actors, Impact on Civilians, Environments, Methods, Resources Conflict in Nigeria In 2009, the conflict consisted only of Boko Haram and the Nigerian government. In 2013, the community-based group Yan Gora formed to protect the local civilian population from Boko Haram (Agbiboa, 2015; Center for Civilians in Conflict, 2018). Nigerian troops together with support from the locally embedded Yan Gora forced Boko Haram to move toward Lake Chad, a region bordering with Chad, Cameroon, and Niger. The porous borders together with the fact that Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the… Actors, Impact on Civilians, Environments Introducing the Changing Character of Conflict Platform project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts Katerina Tkacova, University of Oxford The interdisciplinary project aims to create a knowledge-based platform for academics, practitioners, policy-makers and the wider public to understand the changing character of conflicts across different epistemologies and methodologies. While we might not be able to stop some conflicts, we may well be able to prevent a drastic increase in casualties or erosion of social fabric if we understand the main patterns of organized violence. In our work, we focus… Methods, Resources Conflicts in Flux: A Novel Approach to Analysing Conflict Dynamics ​This article presents a novel approach to studying armed conflict based on a new geographical unit of analysis, ‘setting of organized violence’ (SORVI). Some of the world’s most devastating armed conflicts—ranging from the Afghan civil war to the Syrian conflict—comprise several entangled conflicts and changing contested issues that spill across borders. They also feature new spin-off conflicts. Current macro-level studies of conflict research, especially those with quantitative…