Resource Conflict and Environmental Relations in Africa

The book discusses the failure of many African governments in providing the social needs of the masses, thereby placing the citizenry on the desperate quest for economic resources. Unfortunately, in many African States, mineral resources are owned, explored and marketed by the 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, communities, and constituencies. Often the challenge and resistance to state ownership of resources is generated by communal or group sense of exploitation, negligence and widespread poverty in the face of high resource endowment and waste by the government officials.

Paradoxically, in Niger Delta of Nigeria, as discussed in the book, the state has unleashed unlimited might upon all social groups and agitators, thereby leading to the increased act of taking arms by such groups. When the informal resource agitators succeed in arming themselves, they begin to demand social and environmental justice, thereby leading to mass armed conflict between them and the government security agencies. Sometimes, the confrontation could be between them and other rival local resource actors in the informal sector of their country's economy bearing in mind that the resources within their jurisdiction have become the central determinant of national commonwealth.

It is at that state of desperado to control access, extraction and sale of natural resources in a State, by different armed groups that the process of natural resources extraction qualifies as the most visible cause of conflicts and crises around the African continent that is the centrepiece of the book. This is quite understandable given that mineral resource is a gift of nature; and nature is that phenomenon that every human, group and nation claim to represent, or, believe to represent them.

Discusses the role of local autonomy in the Niger Delta peace building process Discusses how environmental factors influence the nature of diplomacy between one country and another Shows the history of multiple forms of environmental conflicts

Auteur
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

Contenu

Chapter 1: Introducing Resource Conflicts and Governance in Africa.- Chapter 2: The Place of Mineral Resource Conflicts in Critical Security Analysis in Africa.- Chapter 3: Theoretical Assessment of the Roles of Diamond in the Sierra Leone's Civil War.- Chapter 4: Deepening The Role of Local Autonomy In The Niger Delta Peace-Building Process.- Chapter 5: Fulani Herdsmen and Farmers Conflict Relations in Idomaland 1999-2017.- Chapter 6: Mineral Riches And Violent Conflicts In Nigeria: An Appraisal Of Mining Conflicts In Ebonyi State.- Chapter 7: Resource Curse And Environmental Conflicts In Angola.- Chapter 8: Conflict In Democratic Republic Of Congo: Framework For Resolution.- Chapter 9: Mining, crush rock Nigeria ltd and Environmental problems in Ishiagu.- Chapter 10: The Anthropocene: An Alternative Lens in The Study Of International Relations.- Chapter 11: The Impact of Climate Change in Egypt.- Chapter 12: Concluding Remarks On Resource Conflict And Environmental Politics In Africa. <p