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Fueling the Insurgency: Climate-Resource Scarcity and the Persistence of Terrorism in Northern Nigeria

This study examines the causal pathways through which climate change and resource scarcity sustain terrorism in Nigeria's Sahelian-Lake Chad region.Employing a mixed-method design that integrates panel data with content analysis of field reports and policy documents, it investigates the interconnections between environmental degradation, livelihood collapse, and violent extremism in Borno, Yobe, Katsina, and Zamfara States.Findings reveal that rising temperatures and declining rainfall aggravate competition over land and water, which, when mediated by governance failures, deepens human insecur…