Resource conflict and environment relations in Africa / Kelechi Johnmary Ani, editor.
Ani, Kelechi Johnmary, editor.
2023
HC800.Z65 R43 2023
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Title
Resource conflict and environment relations in Africa / Kelechi Johnmary Ani, editor.
ISBN
9789811973437 electronic book
9811973431 electronic book
9811973423
9789811973420
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7343-7
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
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10.1007/978-981-19-7343-7 doi
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HC800.Z65 R43 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.7096
Summary
The book dissects the nature of environmental conflicts in Africa. It presents a new theoretical interpretation of resource factors that could transform African states, when resources are adequately managed. Dr. Chijioke Odii, Renaissance University Ugbawka, Nigeria The book is a groundwork on competition over control of mineral resources that have become a major source of armed conflict in Africa. It is a strong call for the transformation of resource governance and management in Africa. Dr. Prince Enwereji, University of South Africa, South Africa The book discusses the failure of many African governments in providing the social needs of the masses. Unfortunately, in many States, mineral resources are owned, explored and marketed by machinery of the state. The problem arises when the masses begin to challenge State access and ownership of resources that are domiciled within their ancestral land. Often their resistance to state control of natural resources is triggered by sense of exploitation, negligence and widespread poverty in the face of high resource endowment and waste by government officials. Paradoxically, the State uses unlimited might to suppress the agitators, thereby leading to increased arms race by such groups. When the resource agitators succeed in arming themselves, they begin to demand for environmental justice, thereby leading to mass armed conflict with the state forces over control of natural commonwealth. It is that state of desperado to control access, extraction and sale of resources in a state, by different armed groups that turns natural resources extraction as visible cause of conflicts around the African continent that is the centrepiece of the book. Dr. Kelechi Johnmary Ani is a lecturer in Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Nigeria and Visiting Senior Lecturer at Renaissance University Ugbawka, Nigeria. He is also an Extraordinary Professor in the Afrocentric Governance of Public Affairs, North West University, South Africa .
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RESOURCE CONFLICT AND ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONS IN AFRICA.
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Intro
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Tables
1 Introducing Resource Conflicts and Governance in Africa
Introduction
Explaining Africa Resource Conflict Through Greed and Grievances Approach
Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: Intersections
Natural Resources and Conflicts in Africa: Cases Survey
Silencing the Guns and Architecture of Accountability in Africa Resource Conflict
Conclusion
Bibliography
2 The Place of Mineral Resource Conflicts in Critical Security Analysis in Africa
Introduction

Nigeria and the Era of Crude Oil
The Place of Mineral Resource Conflicts in the Gulf of Guinea and Critical Security Analysis
Mineral Resource Deposits in South Africa and the Emergence of Apartheid
Energy Security and Human Insecurity as High Point of Critical Security Analysis
Conclusion
References
3 Theoretical Assessment of the Roles of Diamond in the Sierra Leone's Civil War
Introduction
Historical Overview
Theoretical Framework
Human Needs Theory
Resource Abundance Theory
Conclusion
References

4 Deepening the Trajectory of Local Autonomy in Nigerian Niger Delta Peace-Building Process
Prologue: The Context of Peace in the Niger Delta
Illuminating Local Autonomy
What Then Is Local Autonomy in Our Context?
Theorizing Local Autonomy to Our Context
Intellectualizing Local Autonomy in Crude Oil Resource Governance of Nigeria
Local Autonomy and Corporate Social Responsibility
Local Autonomy and Civil Society Engagement
Local Autonomy and Community Engagement
Local Organizations and Sustainable Peace

Epilogue: Incorporating Local Autonomy as Framework in the Niger Delta's Peace-Building
References
5 Fulani Herdsmen and Farmers Conflict Relations in Idomaland 1999-2017
Introduction
Historicity of Idoma and Fulani Interactions
The Place of Land Resource and Fulani Herdsmen in Idomaland
Persistent Conflicts
Lost of Territories/Farmlands
Increase in Social Vices
Consequences of Fulani Occupation of Idomaland
Decrease in Population
Hunger and Poverty
Underdevelopment of the Land
Conclusion
Recommendations
Notes

6 Mineral Riches and Violent Conflicts in Nigeria: An Appraisal of Mining Conflicts in Ebonyi State
Introduction
Theoretical Background
Mining Conflicts in Ebonyi State
Measures for Addressing Mining Conflicts
Conclusion
References
7 Resource Curse and Environmental Conflicts in Angola
Introduction
Socio-Economic Characteristics of Angola
Poverty and Political Corruption in Angola
Oil Exploitation and the Angola Environment
Petro-Violence in Angola
The Resource Curse Model and the Angolan Question
Conclusion
References

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