USIP report on Boko Haram

Here you can find a link to the report I have written for the United States Institute of Peace on Boko Haram.
It's a review of what we know about the group's history, and what has contributed to the situation as we find it. I looked at what some other researchers in the field say and spoke to many journalist friends in Nigeria and outside who have covered the group.
You can also find it here on my archive page.

New piece of work on Boko Haram

Here you can find my new piece on Boko Haram. Or you can go to my archive and find it.

Boko Haram: A bleak assessment

A bleak assessment of the possibility of Nigeria swiftly dealing with Boko Haram comes from Dr Raufu Mustapha, from Oxford's Department of International Development.

At a lecture this week he told Nigeria watchers there was little prospect of a settlement with the group.

"How can you negotiate with someone who might kill you for disagreeing with him?" he said.

His direction for remedy; Address the problems that make young educated-but-not-connected men available for recruitment, and provide security and policing that is not totally contemptuous of human rights.

Meanwhile there have been more attacks every day.

A bleak future indeed.

(more on this soon)