Abiodun Alao
Biographic Data
| ID | 1494641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abiodun Alao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abiodun |
| FAMILY NAME | Alao |
| SIGNATURE | ALAO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8223-0592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Religion, Public Health and Human Security in Nigeria
Religion, Public Health and Human Security in Nigeria
This book critically examines the intersection of religion, public health and human security in Nigeria. Focusing on Christianity, Islam, traditional religions and "intra-religious" doctrinal divergencies, the book explores the impact faith has on health-related decisions and how this affects security in Nigeria. The book assesses the connection between religion and five contemporary major health and medical issues in the country. This includes t…
Beyond liberal institution (re)building
This paper contributes to debates on the relationship between peacebuilding and statebuilding with its analysis of post-independence Sierra Leone. It considers the extent to which peacebuilding has returned Sierra Leonean society to post-independence statebuilding conversations and how the issues that have emanated from such conversations have interacted with settlement and post-settlement arrangements. This paper analyses original data from focu…
Burden of Collective Goodwill
Islamic radicalisation and violent extremism in Nigeria
This article examines the issues underlining Islamic radicalisation and violence in Nigeria, a phenomenon whose latest manifestation through the activities of the Jamā'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lādda'awatih wal-Jihad (widely known as Boko Haram), has attracted considerable concern. It traces the evolution of the phenomenon and identifies the key issues that have explained its pattern of expression. The paper advances three main arguments: first, that Isla…
Islamic radicalisation and violence in Liberia
This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa. Concern about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in academic research, and the adoption of militarised approaches to addressing it questioned. However, the basis for that questioning – the need to investigate factors such as the historical and socio-economic roots of militancy – is not developed, nor is it s…
Mugabe and the Politics of Security in Zimbabwe
In 1980, the newly independent and democratic Zimbabwe was a beacon of hope in a troubled region. Three decades later, Zimbabwe became the focus of international attention for very different reasons: acrimonious racial relations, controversial elections, economic hardship, and military intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mugabe and the Politics of Security in Zimbabwe argues that this unfortunate transition is intrinsically link…
Natural Resources and the Dynamics of Conflicts in West Africa
Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa
Youths in the interface of development and security
This article interrogates the link between youth, security and development in Africa and argues that the central determinant in the link is ‘governance’, especially as this implies the ability of the state to harness the productive potential of youths and to meet their demands on a number of issues. The article also asserts that the reality of a youth bulge in many African countries presents challenges (as opposed to crises), as much as opportuni…
Cut short for taking short cuts
The July 1999 Lomé Peace Agreement, the third in the series of peace agreements signed to end Sierra Leone's then eight-year war, collapsed in May 2000, with the arrest and detention of UN peacekeepers by the members of the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF). The collapse of the agreement raised fundamental questions about the future of peace in Sierra Leone, and forced many observers to wonder whether there are peculiarities inherent in the …
Economic fragility and political fluidity
(2000). Economic fragility and political fluidity: Explaining natural resources and conflicts. International Peacekeeping: Vol. 7, Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century, pp. 23-36
Diamonds are forever … but so also are controversies
While the world waits to see if the July 1999 peace agreement between the government and the rebels in Sierra Leone holds, controversies still surrounds the war that has left more than 20,000 dead, several hundreds mutilated and up to a million displaced. Most of these controversies centre on the dynamics that gave the conflict life. Extant knowledge places premium on the economic ramifications of the conflict, particularly the importance of diam…
Peacekeepers, politicians, and warlords
Brothers at War. Dissidence and Rebellion in Southern Africa
A comparative evaluation of the armed struggle in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe
The end of apartheid in South Africa marked the end of the armed struggle in Southern Africa, a struggle that accounted for the transformation of five countries in the region. The objective of this study is to examine the armed struggle in three of these countries – Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Although the nature of the historical evolution of these countries made them to be different from the Lusophone territories of Angola and Mozambiqu…
Cut short for taking short cuts
The July 1999 Lomé Peace Agreement, the third in the series of peace agreements signed to end Sierra Leone's then eight-year war, collapsed in May 2000, with the arrest and detention of UN peacekeepers by the members of the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF). The collapse of the agreement raised fundamental questions about the future of peace in Sierra Leone, and forced many observers to wonder whether there are peculiarities inherent in the …
Economic fragility and political fluidity
(2000). Economic fragility and political fluidity: Explaining natural resources and conflicts. International Peacekeeping: Vol. 7, Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century, pp. 23-36
Islamic radicalisation and violent extremism in Nigeria
This article examines the issues underlining Islamic radicalisation and violence in Nigeria, a phenomenon whose latest manifestation through the activities of the Jamā'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lādda'awatih wal-Jihad (widely known as Boko Haram), has attracted considerable concern. It traces the evolution of the phenomenon and identifies the key issues that have explained its pattern of expression. The paper advances three main arguments: first, that Isla…
Beyond liberal institution (re)building
This paper contributes to debates on the relationship between peacebuilding and statebuilding with its analysis of post-independence Sierra Leone. It considers the extent to which peacebuilding has returned Sierra Leonean society to post-independence statebuilding conversations and how the issues that have emanated from such conversations have interacted with settlement and post-settlement arrangements. This paper analyses original data from focu…
Youths in the interface of development and security
This article interrogates the link between youth, security and development in Africa and argues that the central determinant in the link is ‘governance’, especially as this implies the ability of the state to harness the productive potential of youths and to meet their demands on a number of issues. The article also asserts that the reality of a youth bulge in many African countries presents challenges (as opposed to crises), as much as opportuni…
A comparative evaluation of the armed struggle in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe
The end of apartheid in South Africa marked the end of the armed struggle in Southern Africa, a struggle that accounted for the transformation of five countries in the region. The objective of this study is to examine the armed struggle in three of these countries – Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Although the nature of the historical evolution of these countries made them to be different from the Lusophone territories of Angola and Mozambiqu…
Brothers at War. Dissidence and Rebellion in Southern Africa
Diamonds are forever … but so also are controversies
While the world waits to see if the July 1999 peace agreement between the government and the rebels in Sierra Leone holds, controversies still surrounds the war that has left more than 20,000 dead, several hundreds mutilated and up to a million displaced. Most of these controversies centre on the dynamics that gave the conflict life. Extant knowledge places premium on the economic ramifications of the conflict, particularly the importance of diam…
Peacekeepers, politicians, and warlords
Economic fragility and political fluidity
(2000). Economic fragility and political fluidity: Explaining natural resources and conflicts. International Peacekeeping: Vol. 7, Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century, pp. 23-36
Cut short for taking short cuts
The July 1999 Lomé Peace Agreement, the third in the series of peace agreements signed to end Sierra Leone's then eight-year war, collapsed in May 2000, with the arrest and detention of UN peacekeepers by the members of the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF). The collapse of the agreement raised fundamental questions about the future of peace in Sierra Leone, and forced many observers to wonder whether there are peculiarities inherent in the …
Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa
Youths in the interface of development and security
This article interrogates the link between youth, security and development in Africa and argues that the central determinant in the link is ‘governance’, especially as this implies the ability of the state to harness the productive potential of youths and to meet their demands on a number of issues. The article also asserts that the reality of a youth bulge in many African countries presents challenges (as opposed to crises), as much as opportuni…
Natural Resources and the Dynamics of Conflicts in West Africa
Mugabe and the Politics of Security in Zimbabwe
In 1980, the newly independent and democratic Zimbabwe was a beacon of hope in a troubled region. Three decades later, Zimbabwe became the focus of international attention for very different reasons: acrimonious racial relations, controversial elections, economic hardship, and military intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mugabe and the Politics of Security in Zimbabwe argues that this unfortunate transition is intrinsically link…
Islamic radicalisation and violent extremism in Nigeria
This article examines the issues underlining Islamic radicalisation and violence in Nigeria, a phenomenon whose latest manifestation through the activities of the Jamā'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lādda'awatih wal-Jihad (widely known as Boko Haram), has attracted considerable concern. It traces the evolution of the phenomenon and identifies the key issues that have explained its pattern of expression. The paper advances three main arguments: first, that Isla…
Islamic radicalisation and violence in Liberia
This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa. Concern about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in academic research, and the adoption of militarised approaches to addressing it questioned. However, the basis for that questioning – the need to investigate factors such as the historical and socio-economic roots of militancy – is not developed, nor is it s…
Burden of Collective Goodwill
Beyond liberal institution (re)building
This paper contributes to debates on the relationship between peacebuilding and statebuilding with its analysis of post-independence Sierra Leone. It considers the extent to which peacebuilding has returned Sierra Leonean society to post-independence statebuilding conversations and how the issues that have emanated from such conversations have interacted with settlement and post-settlement arrangements. This paper analyses original data from focu…
Religion, Public Health and Human Security in Nigeria
This book critically examines the intersection of religion, public health and human security in Nigeria. Focusing on Christianity, Islam, traditional religions and "intra-religious" doctrinal divergencies, the book explores the impact faith has on health-related decisions and how this affects security in Nigeria. The book assesses the connection between religion and five contemporary major health and medical issues in the country. This includes t…
Religion, Public Health and Human Security in Nigeria
Political science (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Africa (3 works)