Deficits of Post Conflict Peace: A Historical Inquiry into Problems Faced by Small Arms Control Initiatives in Nigeria
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2015
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Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) Ikoyi Lagos
Abstract
The Peace of the post Civil War era in Nigeria was
considered by many and an uneasy one. The presence
of large amounts of small arms and light weapons within
the fragile polity affords a ready alternative to peace thus
representing a huge deficit to long term peacebuilding.
This study historically traces challenges to the control
process that have emerged over time. It investigates the
role of the politics of arms embargos during the Nigerian
Civil War; inadequate post-conflict DDR; availability of
conflict resources to non-state actors and institutional
and financial problems of cooperative security. The paper
argues that a key aspect of the control process must
involve the mitigation of some of these challenges which
often cripple the control process and by extension
hamper peacebuilding efforts in the various conflicts that
have emerged in different parts of the country since the
Civil War
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Strategic Studies, Arms control