Exploring the contentious landscape of Nigeria's escalating violence, this book describes the changing roles of traditional authorities in combatting contemporary security challenges.
Set against a backdrop of widespread security threats - including insurgency, land disputes, communal violence, regional independence movements, and widespread criminal activities - perhaps more than ever before, Nigeria's conventional security infrastructure seems ill-equipped for the job. This book offers a fresh, empirical analysis of the roles of traditional authorities - including kings, Ezes, Obas, and Emirs - who are often hailed as potent alternatives to the state in security governance. It complicates the assumption that these traditional leaders, by virtue of their customary legitimacy and popular roots, are singularly effective in preventing and managing violence. Instead, in exploring their creative adaptation to governance roles after a dramatic postcolonial downturn, this book argues that traditional leaders can augment, but not substitute, the state in addressing insecurity.
This book's in-depth analysis will be of interest to researchers and policy makers across African and security studies, political science, anthropology, and development.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
| ISBN: | 9781032550268 |
| Publication date: | 14th April 2025 |
| Author: | David Ehrhardt, David Oladimeji Alao, Muhammad Sani Umar |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 246 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa |
| Genres: |
Indigenous people: governance and politics Police and security services Social and cultural anthropology |
Exploring the contentious landscape of Nigeria's escalating violence, this book describes the changing roles of traditional authorities in combatting contemporary security challenges.
Set against a backdrop of widespread security threats - including insurgency, land disputes, communal violence, regional independence movements, and widespread criminal activities - perhaps more than ever before, Nigeria's conventional security infrastructure seems ill-equipped for the job. This book offers a fresh, empirical analysis of the roles of traditional authorities - including kings, Ezes, Obas, and Emirs - who are often hailed as potent alternatives to the state in security governance. It complicates the assumption that these traditional leaders, by virtue of their customary legitimacy and popular roots, are singularly effective in preventing and managing violence. Instead, in exploring their creative adaptation to governance roles after a dramatic postcolonial downturn, this book argues that traditional leaders can augment, but not substitute, the state in addressing insecurity.
This book's in-depth analysis will be of interest to researchers and policy makers across African and security studies, political science, anthropology, and development.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Traditional Authority and Security in Contemporary Nigeria features in the following genres: Regional / International studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Ethnic studies, Political leaders and leadership, Terrorism, armed struggle, Armed conflict, Theory of warfare and military science, Development economics and emerging economies, Human geography, Sociology, Development studies, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Comparative politics
Traditional Authority and Security in Contemporary Nigeria is available in Paperback
Traditional Authority and Security in Contemporary Nigeria was written by David Ehrhardt, David Oladimeji Alao, Muhammad Sani Umar and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Traditional Authority and Security in Contemporary Nigeria has 246 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa series
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