Youth and the Generational Dimensions to Struggles for Resource Control in the Niger Delta: Prospects for the Nation-State Project in Nigeria

is a program director at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Brooklyn, New York. He leads the SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programs. He has published extensively on the political economy of oil, African peace, security, and development, globalization, environmental conflict and environmental security. The 2004 Claude Ake Visiting Chair at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, Cyril Obi is also a recipient of fellowship awards from CODESRIA; African Studies Centre, Leiden; St. Antony’s College, Oxford University; Salzburg Seminar; and the SSRC. He also holds a 2020 Peace Distinguished Scholar Award of the International Studies Association (ISA), and is currently a research associate of the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He serves on the editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals, and has published extensively in the fields of international relations, African politics, peace, development, and security, and the political economy of oil in Africa.