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Understanding Organised Violence and Crime in Political Settlements: Oil Wars, Petro‐Criminality and Amnesty in the Niger Delta
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SchultzeKraft Markus
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3287
Subject(s) - amnesty , niger delta , human settlement , economic rent , politics , settlement (finance) , organised crime , political science , natural resource , political violence , development economics , political economy , economy , criminology , sociology , economics , law , geography , delta , engineering , market economy , archaeology , finance , payment , aerospace engineering
The relationship between political settlements and organised violence and crime in the contemporary developing world is little understood. Analysing the oil wars and massive oil theft in the Niger delta of Nigeria in the first decade after the transition to civilian‐electoral rule in 1999, this article shows that (i) organised violence is not exogenous to political settlements and their (re)production and does not always destabilise them; and (ii) organised criminal activities associated with the generation of natural resource rents, such as the massive theft of crude oil, can contribute to violence mitigation and the stabilisation of a contested political settlement. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.