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[Project] Ethnic federalism: Institutional preconditions for stability and conflict management

• In the period 2005 to 2008, a project funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF) studied ethnic federalism and considered the institutional preconditions for stability and conflict settlement. Four multiethnic federations—Russia, India, Nigeria and Spain—served as examples.

[PDF Document] How to Stop Jihadi Banditry Becoming New Normal.pdf   (5.28 MB)

[PDF Document] How to Stop Jihadi Banditry Becoming New Normal.pdf   (5.28 MB)

[Publication] Curbing the Expansion of Lakurawa and Mamudawa Insurgent Groups

• The jihadist insurgent group Lakurawa  is a major threat to regional stability in West Africa despite the Nigerian government’s efforts, including military operations against its forest camps and its designation as a terrorist organisation. Active in the Northwest region since 2018, Lakurawa continues to control remote border communities in Nigeria and is now extending its reach into Northcentral Nigeria. The group’s access to heavy weapons, ability to...

[Publication] Curbing the Expansion of Lakurawa and Mamudawa Insurgent Groups

• The jihadist insurgent group Lakurawa  is a major threat to regional stability in West Africa despite the Nigerian government’s efforts, including military operations against its forest camps and its designation as a terrorist organisation. Active in the Northwest region since 2018, Lakurawa continues to control remote border communities in Nigeria and is now extending its reach into Northcentral Nigeria. The group’s access to heavy weapons, ability to...

[Page] BICC Policy Brief - Vigilante

• Based on empirical quantitative and qualitative research conducted as part of a joint AUDPOBICC project this policy brief examines the risks that are associated with the engagement of vigilante groups in the Lake Chad Basin region LCB and provides recommendations for risk management and mitigation Vigilante groups have a long history in the Lake Chad Basin region They are mostly informal providers of security protection and law and order that emerge as a local civilian response to the ineffecti...

[Project] Armed Groups in the Sahel

• Regional approaches to dealing with armed groups in the Sahel In the Greater Sahel border regions are frequently hot spots in long running conflicts which are used by non-state armed groups for their benefit, but they are also spaces where people and communities socially, culturally, and economically connect and build important interrelations on different scales. We believe that these border complexes have unique historic and socio-economic features which need to be considered more strongly when...

[Project] Armed Groups in the Sahel

• Regional approaches to dealing with armed groups in the Sahel In the Greater Sahel border regions are frequently hot spots in long running conflicts which are used by non-state armed groups for their benefit, but they are also spaces where people and communities socially, culturally, and economically connect and build important interrelations on different scales. We believe that these border complexes have unique historic and socio-economic features which need to be considered more strongly when...