PEACE Archives - Intervention

Bingham University Holds International Conference on Climate Change and Insecurity April 2026

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Climate Change, Conflict, Crisis of Governance, Development, Diplomacy, insecurity, NAM, PEACE, Plural Studies, Political instability, South- South, TerrorismNo CommentsViews:

Bingham University in Karu, near Abuja, Nigeria is keeping its promise of being a debating space. Its Ambassador Bulus Lolo Centre for Diplomacy, Conflict, Peace and Plural Studies is up wit... Read more

No Cure for Rural Criminal Groups Than Reassertion of the Nigerian State, Says Prof Kwaja

Posted By: adminon: July 18, 2025In: GovernanceTags: ACSS, Citizens’ agency, Criminal armed groups, PEACE, Rural communities, Senator Abdulaziz Yar’adua, Social provisioning, The Nigerian State, Urban criminalityNo CommentsViews:

There are no other ways to contain the rising influence of non-state armed groups than the Nigerian State re-asserting itself. Canvassing this position is Prof Chris Kwaja, peace academic an... Read more

Gov Muftwang, Others Task Prof Chris Kwaja @ Birthday!

Posted By: adminon: May 12, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Governor Caleb Muftwang, Modibbo Adama University – Yola, Northern Nigeria, PEACE, Plateau State, USIPNo CommentsViews:

The name rings a bell here and there although the core of the message of the bell is awaiting consolidation. That is probably because Prof Chris Kwaja is still highly distributed into academ... Read more

Quite Literally, China Builds While America Bombs, And This Study Proves It

Posted By: adminon: February 02, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Beijing, CEPR, DOD, George Orwell, Manufacturing superpower, Paul Krugman, PEACE, WAR, WashingtonNo CommentsViews:

The world is becoming more and more interesting even as it is becoming more and more dangerous, whether you are in the metropolis or in the hamlet. Just as in an earlier story in Interventio... Read more

UDU Steps Out With a Major Symposium on Niger Coup

Posted By: adminon: August 26, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: African integration, Niger coup, NIPSS, PEACE, UDUNo CommentsViews:

For a country such as Nigeria where “Nigeriens are not aliens in Nigeria” was the title of the memorable pan-regional essay by the late Dr Mahmud Modibbo Tukur, Historian and former ASUU Pre... Read more

Nigerian Peace Academics Storm Bauchi for 20th Anniversary

Posted By: adminon: May 10, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi State, Conflict, Development, PEACE, Security, SPSPNo CommentsViews:

Those who assume that scholars of Peace and Conflict Studies in Nigeria are not conscious that Nigeria has been one of the world’s richest site for the study of violent as well as structural... Read more

#EndSARS Protest Morally Justified, Says Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: October 18, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: #EndSARS, Justice, PEACE, SARS. CBCN, SWATNo CommentsViews:

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, (CBCN) has declared the #EndSARS protests as morally justified and worth its support of the youths who have taken the step. The body is cautioning... Read more

Ghana president Clarifies US-Ghana Military Agreement

Posted By: adminon: April 07, 2018In: FlashbackTags: ECOWAS, PEACENo CommentsViews:

President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana has formally explained what is involved in an expanded facility deal between the United States and Ghana. He has put it to peace in the ECOWAS sub-region a... Read more

Widespread Poverty Makes Peace Impossible in Any Society

Posted By: adminon: August 01, 2016In: SpectacleTags: ABBA GANA, NIGERIA, PEACE, PovertyNo CommentsViews:

By Mohammed Abba Gana Let me also go by what has now become the convention here in Nigeria by uttering ‘All protocols observed’. I preface my statement with the seemingly unproblematic conte... Read more