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This book critically examines the emerging architecture for regional security in Africa, with a focus on counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin. The volume is divided into five parts, providing conceptual, transnational, regional, national and alternative perspectives on regional security.
List of contents
Part I: Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives
Introduction: Lake Chad Basin - Africa's Emerging Regional Security Complex
Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala
Chapter One: Theoretical Perspectives on Terrorism and Insurgency in Africa
Nuhu K. Achi
Chapter Two: The Frontiers of Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala
Part II: Transnational Perspectives
Chapter Three: Mapping Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency (CT-COIN) in Africa
Dauda Abubakar & Sharkdam Wapmuk
Chapter Four: Multilateral Organizations, Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Ubong Essien Umoh
Part III: Regional Perspectives
Chapter Five: The Ecology and Geopolitics of Lake Chad Basin
Abubakar Kawu Monguno and Ikusemoran Mayomi
Chapter Six: Lake Chad Basin Commission: Emerging Framework for Security Regionalization in the Lake Chad Basin
Ibrahim Umara
Chapter Seven: Emerging Architecture for Regional Security Complex in the Lake Chad Basin: The Multinational Joint Task Force in Perspective
Bashir Bala & Usman A. Tar
Chapter Eight: Policing Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Dawud M. Dawud & Tukur Abdulkadir
Chapter Nine: Intelligence Capabilities, Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Yusuf Abdullahi Manu & Abraham Nabhon Thomas
Part IV: National and Local Perspectives
Chapter Ten: Ground Zero: Islamic Radicalization and Insurgency in Northeast Nigeria
Abubakar K. Monguno & Ibrahim Umara
Chapter Eleven: The Ecology of Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency: Environmental Security in North-Eastern Nigeria
Usman A. Tar & Samuel B. Ayegba
Chapter Twelve: Special Operations Forces, Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency Operations in the Lake Chad Area: The Nigerian Experience
Freedom C. Onuoha & Michael I. Ugwueze
Chapter Thirteen: Cameroon: Counterterrorism and Counter Insurgency in a Volatile Neighborhood
C. Nna-Emeka Okereke & Chinyere Ibeh
Chapter Fourteen: Niger Republic: Niger Republic: Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in a Complex Terrain
Bem Japhet Audu & Shuaibu Ibrahim
Part V: Alternative Perspectives
Chapter Fifteen: Civil Society, Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Ben Nwosu & Abdulmalik Auwal
Chapter Sixteen: Religious Institutions, Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in Lake Chad Basin
Samuel B. Ayegba & Haruna Yerima
Chapter Seventeen: Gender, Vulnerability and Counterterrorism in the Lake Chad Basin: Impact on Women and Children in North East Nigeria
Nachana'a Alahira David & Elizabeth Aishatu Bature
Chapter Eighteen: Civilians, Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Jonathan S. Maiangwa and Patience Jacob Kundo
Chapter Nineteen: Youth Bulge, Radicalization and Deradicalization in the Lake Chad Basin
Nathaniel Dominic Danjibo & Abosede Omowumi Babatunde
Chapter Twenty: Humanitarian Agencies, Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Mala Mustapha & Kamselem Shehu
Part VI: Conclusion
Conclusion: The Prospects of Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Bashir Bala and Usman A. Tar
About the author
Edited by Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala - Contributions by Usman A. Tar; Bashir Bala; Nuhu K. Achi; Dauda Abubakar; Sharkdam Wapmuk; Ubong Essien Umoh; Abubakar Kawu Monguno; Ikusemoran Mayomi; Ibrahim Umara; Dawud M. Dawud; Tukur Abdulkadir; Yusuf Abdulla
Summary
This book critically examines the emerging architecture for regional security in Africa, with a focus on counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin. The volume is divided into five parts, providing conceptual, transnational, regional, national and alternative perspectives on regional security.
Additional text
This edited volume offers authoritative insights into one of the most destabilising regional security nightmares in contemporary international history, the Boko Haram terrorist insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin of West and Central Africa. The book elucidates, from policy science perspectives, the ethnographic, socio-economic and political contexts of the insurgency, as well as the challenges besetting the manifold interventionist measures - national, regional and international - aimed at combating it. I strongly recommend this book to all policy scholars, practitioners and agencies interested in African security and counter-terrorism on a global scale.
