书目名称 | Violence in Nigeria | 副标题 | Patterns and Trends | 编辑 | Patricia Taft,Nate Haken | 视频video | | 概述 | Utilizes web-based technology and unique conflict maps to trace possible terrorism conflicts in Nigeria from the birth of Boko Haram in the North (2009) through 2013.Covers regional, state, and local | 丛书名称 | Terrorism, Security, and Computation | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This book takes a quantitative look at ICT-generated event data to highlight current trends and issues in Nigeria at the local, state and national levels. Without emphasizing a specific policy or agenda, it provides context and perspective on the relative spatial-temporal distribution of conflict factors in Nigeria. The analysis of violence at state and local levels reveals a fractal pattern of overlapping ecosystems of conflict risk that must be understood for effective, conflict-sensitive approaches to development and direct conflict mitigation efforts.Moving beyond analyses that use a broad religious, ethnic or historical lens, this book focuses on the country’s 774 local government areas and incorporates over 10,000 incidents coded by location, date and indicator to identify patterns in conflict risk between 2009 and 2013. It is the first book to track conflict in Nigeria during this period, which covers the Amnesty Agreement in the Niger Delta and the birth of Boko Haram in the North. It also includes conflict risk heat maps of each state and trend-lines of violence. The authors conclude with a discussion of the nuanced factors that lead to escalating violence, such as resourc | 出版日期 | Book 2015 | 关键词 | Boko Haram; Conflict maps; Niger Delta; Nigeria; Oil; Peacebuilding; Public policy; Risk heat maps; Security | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14935-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-36019-5 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-14935-6Series ISSN 2197-8778 Series E-ISSN 2197-8786 | issn_series | 2197-8778 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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