Foreword / Muhammad Sanusi II, CON, Sarkin Kano -- Introduction : Faith, society and Boko Haram / Kate Meagher, Abdul Raufu Mustapha -- I: THE MACRO-SOCIAL CONTEXT -- The Roles of the Ulama in radicalization and counter-eadicalization / M. Sani Umar -- Why in Borno? : The history, geography and sociology of Islamic radicalization / Abubakar Kawu Monguno, Ibrahim Umara -- Boko Halal : limits to radicalization in Southern Niger Republic / Abdourahmane Idrissa -- The effects of security measures on youth radicalization / Julie G. Sanda -- I: MICRO-SOCIAL RELATIONS -- Pathways to radicalization : learning from Boko Haram life histories / M. Sani Umar and David Ehrhardt -- Gender norms and women's participation in radicalization in Northern Nigeria / Zainab Usman, Sherine El Taraboulsi, Khadija Gambo Hawaja -- An inquiry into possible factors contributing to radicalization in childhood and youth in Northern Nigeria / Murray Last -- Informalization and its discontents : the informal economy and Islamic radicalization in Northern Nigeria / Kate Meagher, Ibrahim Haruna Hassan -- III. SEEKING A WAY FORWARD -- Endgames : the evolution of Boko Haram in domparative perspective / David Ehrhardt, M. Sani Umar -- Conclusion :Toward a whole-of-society approach to counter-radicalization / (by all contributors)
Summary:
"It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2 million people. While its territorial gains have largely been recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance, livelihoods and food security, as well as posing a security risk to Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Less attention is paid to the pervasive popular rejection of violent extremism on the ground. How did a diverse and economically dynamic West African society unravel so violently, and for so long? Why does radicalization have so little influence on large Muslim populations in surrounding areas, such as the Yoruba in south-western Nigeria, or the poor ethnically similar Muslim majority in central Niger just north of the border? This book looks beyond the details of the insurgency to examine the wider social and political processes that explain why Boko Haram emerged when and where it did, and what forces exist within society to contain it. Drawing on the detailed fieldwork of specialist Nigerian and Nigerianist scholars from Nigeria, connecting the worst of Boko Haram violence to the wider realities of the present, the book offers new insights into the drivers of Islamic extremism in Nigeria - poverty, regional inequality, environmental stress, migration, youth unemployment, and state corruption and human rights abuses - with a view to charting more sustainable paths out of the conflict."--Publisher.
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