Marginalized Violent Internal Conflicts (MVIC) Model: Reclaiming the Promise of the Ogoni Conflict in the Niger Delta, Nigeria - Softcover

Agbonifo, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3843360189 ISBN 13: 9783843360180

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

This book focuses on the Ogoni conflict in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. There exists abundant scholarly materials on the conflict and wide-ranging prognostications on its causes. However, scholarship has been bogged down in controversy over whether economic self-interest or legitimate desire to protect community and environment propelled the conflict. The book seeks to extend scholarship on the Ogoni conflict by testing the analytical utility of a conflict model, Marginalized Violent Internal Conflict (MVIC), to attempts to fully comprehend the nature of the conflict. The author argues that the model, developed by Dan Tschirgi following a study of the Gamaa Al' Islamiyya (Egypt) and the Zapatista (Mexico) conflicts, provides better understanding of the causes and dynamics of the Ogoni conflict.

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This book seeks to extend scholarship on the Ogoni conflict by testing the analytical utility of Marginalized Violent Internal Conflict (MVIC) model in the comprehension of the nature and dynamics of the conflict. The author argues that the model provides fuller understanding of the causes and dynamics of the Ogoni conflict.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3843360189
• ISBN 13: 9783843360180
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92