Obasesam Okoi
Dr Obasesam Okoi is an Assistant Professor of Justice and Peace Studies at the University of St. Thomas, USA, an Associate Editor of the African Security Journal, and a member of the International Editorial Board of Third World Thematics – A Third World Quarterly journal. He is a Jill Knox Peace Fellow at the AATH Humor Academy and a Fellow at the Global Research Network’s War, Conflict and Migration Think Tank. Additionally, he serves as an advisor at the War Prevention Initiative in Portland, Oregon, USA. Dr Okoi is the author of "Punctuated Peace in Nigeria’s Oil Region: Oil Insurgency and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Peacebuilding" (Palgrave, 2021) and has published numerous book chapters and journal articles in reputable mediums.
Recent publications:
Okoi, Obasesam. 2021. Punctuated Peace in Nigeria’s Oil Region: Oil Insurgency and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Okoi, Obasesam and Temitpe B. Oriola. 2022. “Insurgency and Organised Violence in Africa—A Cross-National Approach.” In Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Africa, pp. C24.S1–C24.S8, edited by R. Sooryamoorthy and Ernest Khalema. (Oxford University Press).
Okoi, Obasesam. 2021. “The Responsibility to Defend? Boko Haram Terrorism and Responses to Terror-Induced Displacement in Northeast Nigeria.” In Boko Haram’s Campaign of Terror in the Lake Chad: Context, Dimensions and Future Trajectories, pp. 103-123, edited by Temitope B. Oriola, Freedom Onuoha, and Samuel Oyewole (Routledge).
Okoi, Obasesam. 2020. Review of Michael D. Beevers Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Governance After Armed Conflict: Sierra Leone and Liberia. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) in Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 32(1): 568-571.
Okoi, Obasesam. 2022. From Insurgents to Entrepreneurs: Between Stability and Sustainable Peace in Nigeria’s Oil Region. In Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies 54(1): 1-24.
Okoi, Obasesam and MaryAnne Iwara. 2021. “The Failure of Governance in Nigeria: An Epistocratic Challenge.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Online.
Okoi, Obasesam and Tatenda Bwawa. 2020. “How Heath Inequality Affect Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.” World Development, 135: 105067.
Okoi, Obasesam. 2019. “Peacebuilding and Transformational Change in Nigeria’s Oil Region.” Conflict Resolution Quarterly 19(1): 1–16.