African Journal on Conflict Resolution

Foreword

• Dorcas Onigbinde

Alienation and Militancy in the Niger Delta

Hostage Taking and the Dilemma of the Nigerian State

• Ibaba S. Ibaba

Environmental Degradation, Livelihood and Conflicts

A Focus on the Implications of the Diminishing Water Resources of Lake Chad for North-Eastern Nigeria

• Freedom Onuoha

African Ruling Political Parties and the Making of ‘Authoritarian’ Democracies

Extending the Frontiers of Social Justice in Nigeria

• Sulaiman Kura

Where does Islamic Arbitration fit into the Judicially Recognised Ingredients of Customary Arbitration in the Nigerian Jurisprudence?

• Oluwafemi Ladapo

Book Review

Gulliver’s Troubles: Nigeria’s Foreign Policy after the Cold War

• Garth le Pere