Car Bombing 'With Due Respect': The Niger Delta Insurgency and theIdeaCalled MEND

Autor:	Temitope B. Oriola, Andy W Knight, Kevin D. Haggerty
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Niger delta Insurgency Engineering Emancipation business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Focus group Law Political economy Political Science and International Relations Sympathy New wars PRISM (surveillance program) business Safety Research media_common
Zdroj:	African Security. 6:67-96
ISSN:	1939-2214 1939-2206
DOI:	10.1080/19392206.2013.759477
Popis:	This study contributes to the scholarly understanding of the insurgency in the oil-rich Delta region of Nigeria. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), a loose coalition of insurgent groups responsible for many spectacular cases of kidnapping and bombing, is interrogated within the new wars theoretical prism. The article draws on interview and focus group data garnered from six categories of actors, including forty-two ex-insurgents engaged in kidnapping, pipeline vandalism, inter alia, and official e-mails from MEND's spokesperson, “Jomo Gbomo.” MEND's loose structure, fluid membership, public sympathy, the Delta creeks and vast resources, the article argues, have combined to produce an unprecedented insurgency in Nigeria. The analysis demonstrates fundamental ways in which the MEND-led oil insurgency aligns with tenets of the new war thesis. The article also provides important caveats to using this approach in the Niger Delta case study.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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