Violent conflicts in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria over marginality in the oil economy, and the negative externalities of over five decades of oil and gas production have created immense development and human security challenges. Non-state organisations have flowered considerably since the late 1980s and have constructed collaborations and partnerships with int...

There has been a flowering of civil society in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria since the late 1980s. The emergent civil society formation constructed a broad regime of advocacy, agitation and struggle that has transformed the content and intensity of the conflict and shifted it from a mere struggle for developmental attention to one for civil and environmental ri...

There has been a flowering of civil society in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria since the late 1980s. The emergent civil society formation constructed a broad regime of advocacy, agitation and struggle that has transformed the content and intensity of the conflict and shifted it from a mere struggle for developmental attention to one for civil and environmental ri...