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Title: SECURITY MANAGEMENT IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY: A PANACEA FOR RESOLVING ARMED CONFLICT IN THE NIGER DELTA OF NIGERIA
Authors: AKAK, EKANEM ETIM; ABOH, JAMES AJANG
Volume:2 Issue: 1
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AKAK, EKANEM ETIM; ABOH, JAMES AJANG Department of History and International Studies University of Calabar, Calabar
MLA 8 ETIM, AKAK, EKANEM, and ABOH, JAMES AJANG. "SECURITY MANAGEMENT IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY: A PANACEA FOR RESOLVING ARMED CONFLICT IN THE NIGER DELTA OF NIGERIA." Int. J. Arts&Humanities, vol. 2, no. 1, Jan. 2018, pp. 13-24, journal-ijah.org/more2018.php?id=2. Accessed 2018. APA ETIM, A., & AJANG, A. (2018, January). SECURITY MANAGEMENT IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY: A PANACEA FOR RESOLVING ARMED CONFLICT IN THE NIGER DELTA OF NIGERIA. Int. J. Arts&Humanities, 2(1), 13-24. Retrieved from http://journal-ijah.org/more2018.php?id=2 Chicago ETIM, AKAK, EKANEM, and ABOH, JAMES AJANG. "SECURITY MANAGEMENT IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY: A PANACEA FOR RESOLVING ARMED CONFLICT IN THE NIGER DELTA OF NIGERIA." Int. J. Arts&Humanities 2, no. 1 (January 2018), 13-24. Accessed , 2018. http://journal-ijah.org/more2018.php?id=2.
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Keywords: Security Management, Democratic Society, Armed Conflict, Niger Delta, Nigeria
Abstract: Security connotes the prioritization and provision of necessary human needs such as economic, political, health, food security and environmental to the citizens in free society that is defined and backed by the rule of law. This paper observed that since the discovery of crude oil and subsequent exploration and exploitation in the Delta region of Nigeria, the region has not known peace due to environmental pollution by the multinational companies carrying out businesses and lack of development commensurate to the volume of money generated from the area. These issues have generated a lot of tension with attendant effect of lost of human and material resources resulting from militant groups embracing violence against the state. Violent confrontation and other crimes such as, kidnapping, pipeline vandalism and hostage taking for ransom became more pronounced with the introduction of democracy in 1999. This is in protest against the state of deprivation, marginalization, hopelessness and squalor in the Niger Delta as a byproduct of leadership failure by successive administrations in Nigeria. In finding solutions to the protracted instability in the region, a lot of interest groups, activists, intellectuals and indeed government have reeled out different propositions and ways out for an entrenched sustainable peace and development. This study is one of such effort using security management with a null hypothesis that harps on no significant relationship between democratic society and the rise in armed conflict in the Niger Delta, with theoretical framework that centers on Ted Gurr's psychological frustration-aggression theory to examine the heart of men and women of Niger Delta, and the reason they are disenchanted with Nigerian government and policies of multinational companies towards them, the utility and justifiability of increase in armed conflict in Niger Delta in a democratic dispensations.
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