Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta

Cyril Obi is a Senior Researcher, and Leader, Research Cluster on Conflict, Displacement and Transformation at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. He is a contributing editor to the Review of African Political Economy, and is on the editorial board of African Journal of International Affairs, the African Security Review, and the Review of Leadership in Africa. His most recent book co-edited with Fantu Cheru, is titled: The Rise of China and India in Africa (Zed, 2010).Siri Aas Rustad is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

• Introduction: Petro-Violence in the Niger Delta: The Complex Politics of an Insurgency - Cyril Obi and Siri Aas RustadPart I: Causes of Conflict, State (In)capacitiesThe Nigerian State, Oil and the Niger Delta Crisis - Ukiwo UkohaCapacity and Governance Deficits in the Response to the Niger Delta Crisis - Babatunde A. AhonsiThe Struggle for Resource Control and Violence in the Niger Delta - Rhuks AkoThe Niger Delta Crisis and the Question of Access to Justice - Engobo EmesehThe Ijaw National Congress and Conflict Resolution in the Niger Delta - Ibaba Samuel IbabaChanging the Paradigm of Pacification: Oil and Militarization in Nigeria's Niger Delta - Charles UkejeNigeria's Oil Diplomacy and the Management of the Niger Delta Crisis - Kayode SoremekunPart II: Conflict Actors' Dynamics'Mend Me' the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta and the Empowerment of Violence - Morten BoåsPopular and Criminal Violence as Instruments of Struggle in the Niger Delta Region - Augustine IkelegbeSwamped with Weapons: The Proliferation of Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Niger Delta - Nils DuquetWomen's Protests in the Niger Delta Region - Oluwatoyin OluwaniyiPart III: Oil MNCs' ResponsesCorporate Social Responsibility and the Niger Delta Conflict: Issues and Prospects - Uwafiokun IdemudiaLabelling Oil, Contesting Governance: LegalOil.com, the GMoU and Profiteering in the Niger Delta - Anna ZalikConclusion: Amnesty and Post-Amnesty Peace: Is the Window of Opportunity Closing for the Niger Delta? - Cyril Obi and Siri Aas Rustad

Obi and Rustad bring together some of the world's leading analysts on the Niger Delta insurgency for a gripping expose of the roots of the conflict and how actors in the region have responded to the crisis. The authors offer a deep, sobering, and multi-dimensional understanding of how the Niger Delta's descent into conflict came about and why it persists. This book will quickly become required reading for both scholars and practitioners interested in untangling these complex threads in order to promote peace, democracy, and development in the Niger Delta, and in similar resource-driven conflicts as well.