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Thoughts of Home: Civil–Military Relations and the Conduct of Nigeria's Peacekeeping Forces

The aim of this paper is to cast new light on the conduct of Nigeria's peacekeeping forces over the past 20 years by examining the Nigerian military's relationship with its own citizens. Time and again while on operations in Liberia and Sierra Leone, these forces have abused human rights and engaged in criminal activities. That they have continued to do so is evidence of the culture of contempt prevalent in the Nigerian military. The paper argues that this culture is, in part, the result of the military's treatment of its own civilian population. Its repeated interventions in the political pro…