Homeland Security and Terrorism in Nigeria: Crises, Climate Change, and Counterterrorism

As Nigeria grapples with critical homeland security challenges, Homeland Security and Terrorism in Nigeria: Crises, Climate Change, and Counterterrorism analyzes these crises to deepen understanding of the Nigerian security dilemma and to seek pathways to a more secure homeland. This book examines the nature and dimensions of the security challenges, focusing on terrorism and its stranglehold on Nigeria’s peaceful existence. Leveraging a multi-disciplinary approach, this study combines a range of perspectives cutting across criminology, political science, sociology, history, international relations, and strategic studies to dissect the subject and problem. Sheriff Folarin, Abiodun Raufu, Godwyns Agbude, and the contributors explore the origins, dynamics, and character of terrorism in Nigeria. They also examine the changing nature of Nigeria’s security architecture as well as adaptive coping mechanisms and counterterror measures in the homeland. This book is a treasure for strategic and security analysts, Nigerian and African security governance scholars, political scientists, and other students and scholars interested in researching Nigeria.

Edidiong Mendie is lecturer/adjunct professor of criminal justice at California State University, Sacramento, and Texas Southern University.

Sheriff Folarin is visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas State University and the Center for Conflict Management at the University of Rwanda.

Abiodun Raufu, PhD, a gender violence scholar, is assistant professor of Criminal Justice at Southern University and A & M College, USA and a Doctoral Summit Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Dr. Raufu is an academic, journalist, and public affairs analyst with an extensive background in media and higher education. Dr. Raufu is a prodigious writer and a relentless researcher whose major research interests include violent victimization, policing, terrorism, and juvenile justice. His works have appeared in high-impact journals such as Criminal Justice and Behavior, The Journal of Black Studies, International Journal of Law, Crime, and Justice, Theory in Action, African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies, The Journal of Education and Social Policy, Caleb Journal of Social and Management Sciences, The Encyclopedia of Crime, Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections, The Routledge Handbook of Africana Criminologies, and Guns, Gun Violence, and Gun Homicides: Perspectives from the Global South, among others. He has also worked in the U.S. prison system as a Correctional Officer and later as a Parole Officer.

Godwyns Agbude is assistant professor at the Federal Univerisity Oye-Ekiti and Claremont Graduate University in the Department of Organizational Leadership.