Beyond Ungoverned Spaces: Connecting the Dots between Relative Deprivation, Banditry, and Violence in Nigeria
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چکیده
The emergence of criminal groups—“armed bandits” in the local parlance—in northwest geopolitical zone has compounded security conundrums Nigeria. dominant explanation for ongoing banditry draws on “ungoverned spaces” theoretical framework to contend that phenomenon is a by-product state’s abject failure monopolize violence over its territory. part state impose order territory leaves much room loosely organized vicious armed groups wreak havoc communities region. proponents this perspective inevitably recommend military solution problem. In article, I take different position counteracts thesis. argue thesis blatantly ignores socioeconomic context within which embedded and how such nurtures crime deviance. Drawing relative deprivation theory, owes not so but ethnic cum material grievances some pastoralists who have taken criminality survival pinpoint discrepancies between what they had, have, think should have. resolving would require attending pastoralists’ through apposite interventions.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: African Security
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1939-2206', '1939-2214']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2022.2061320