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Economies of Violence: Petroleum, Politics and Community Conflict in the Niger. Delta, Nigeria. Principal Investigators. Michael Watts, Director, Institute of  Abstract This paper addresses one of the empirical claims of the 'resource curse' argument, namely that oil abundance raises the probability of political violence. 8 Sep 2010 The popular expectation that the oil-rich but underdeveloped Niger Delta of Nigeria would become more stable and less volatile with the  There have been a large number of successful and failed military coups in Nigeria since the country's independence from the British Empire in 1960. A military coup is the violent or non-violent overthrow of an existing political Max Siollun, Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria's Military Coup Culture (1966-1976), ( New York:  And yet, conflict and violence are currently on the rise, with many conflicts today waged between non-state Meanwhile political violence no longer affects only low-income states. the second half of 2018, most of them targeting manufacturers, oil and gas companies, and educational institutes. Download the pdf version.

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