For this month’s “What We’re Reading” collection, the RESOLVE Network team showcases specific articles related to its project focus: the Lake Chad Basin region. The publications highlight government difficulties in the face of Boko Haram activities, community resilience and deradicalization efforts in Nigeria, implications of broader regional upheaval, and international partnerships to address these challenges. Click the links below to learn more.

Governance 

Angerbrandt, Henrik. “Nigeria and the Lake Chad Region Beyond Boko Haram.” The Nordic Africa Institute, Policy Note No 3:2017. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1115195/FULLTEXT01.pdf 

Downie, Richard. “Collective Insecurity in the Sahel: Fighting Terror with Good Governance.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (2015). https://www.georgetownjournalofinternationalaffairs.org/online-edition/spotlight-on-16-1-inequality-collective-insecurity-in-the-sahel-fighting-terror-with-good-governance?rq=Collective%20Insecurity%20in%20the%20Sahel%3A%20Fighting%20Terror%20with%20Good%20Governance 

Komlavi Hahonou, Eric. “Niger in The Post-Gaddafi Regional Security Context” In: Stabilizing Niger: The Challenges Of Bridging Local, National And Global Security Interests, Danish Institute for International Studies (2016). http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep13463.5  

Ideas 

Barkindo, Fr Atta. “Boko Haram-IS Connection: Local & Regional Implications.” Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses, Vol. 8, No. 6 (June 2016), pp. 3-8. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26351424  

Tardy, Thierry. “The EU and Africa: a changing security partnership.” European Union Institute for Security Studies (2016). http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep06808  

Okereke, C. Nna-Emeka. “Analysing Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis.” Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses, Vol. 10, No. 3 (March 2018), pp. 8-12.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/26380430  

Intervention demographics 

Barkindo, Atta, and Shane Bryans. “De-Radicalising Prisoners in Nigeria: developing a basic prison based de-radicalisation programme.” Journal for Deradicalisation, no. 7 (2016). http://cve-kenya.org:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/43/1/Barkindo%20and%20Bryans_2016_Deradicalising%20prisoners%20in%20Nigeria.pdf  

Debos, Marielle. “Living by the Gun in Chad: Armed Violence as a Practical Occupation.” The Journal of Modern African Studies 49, no. 3 (2011): 409–28. doi:10.1017/S0022278X11000267.https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2EE06856DEC37F386E7B8682BE516B6F/S0022278X11000267a.pdf/living_by_the_gun_in_chad_armed_violence_as_a_practical_occupation.pdf 

Violence 

Okpara, Uche T., Lindsay C. Stringer, Andrew J. Dougill, and Mohammed D. Bila. “Conflicts about water in Lake Chad: Are environmental, vulnerability and security issues linked?” Progress in Development Studies, 15:4 (2015). pp. 308 – 325 http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/91926/2/repository3.pdf 

Ogbozor, Ernest. “Resilience to Violent Extremism: The Rural Livelihood Coping Strategies in the Lake Chad Basin”, Households in Conflict Network, University of Sussex, 2016.  http://www.hicn.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/HiCN-WP-237.pdf  

Hicks, Celeste. “Chad and the West: Shifting Security Burden?” Egmont Institute (2015).  http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep06548