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Alienation and Militancy in the Niger Delta: Hostage Taking and the Dilemma of the Nigerian State

This paper examines the linkages between alienation and militancy in Nigeria's Niger Delta region, and the dilemma the Nigerian State faces in dealing with the menace of hostage taking of oil workers in the region by militant groups. To achieve this objective, the paper critically discusses the centrality of alienation in the seemingly intractable youth violence in the Niger Delta. It demonstrates that alienation, caused by ethnicity based political domination, oil based environmental degradation, corruption and parental neglect has engendered frustration and awareness that explain the conflic…

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Source	OpenAlex research
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	African Journal on Conflict Resolution
Date	2009-01-20
Type	article
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Found at	https://doi.org/10.4314/ajcr.v8i2.39424
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Alienation and Militancy in the Niger Delta: Hostage Taking and the Dilemma of the Nigerian State. OpenAlex research, 2009. Vero Archive, record openalex:W2088299825.