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Title: | Contextualising the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Nigeria's Niger Delta: Local and Global Intersections |
Author: | Onuoha, Godwin |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | African Security Review |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 108-114 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | small arms inequality social conflicts Military, Defense and Arms Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2006.9627406 |
Abstract: | This paper explores the proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW) in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta. Marginalization of minorities and inequitable oil extraction contribute to conflict and instability in the Niger Delta region. Nevertheless, it is the presence of SALW that escalates conflicts from situations of tension to high levels of violence. Sources of SALW in the Niger Delta are, in broad terms, international, regional and subregional. Concerted efforts should be made to reduce the proliferation and misuse of SALW in the Delta region. Such an approach should address both the demand and supply aspects of the problem. Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |