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ABSTRACT
This study examines the funding of community-based organizations (CBOs) as instruments for reducing the extreme behaviors of violent extremist organizations (VEOs). Evidence abounds that CBOs in industrialized nations like the USA and Canada have budget lines designated for government expenditures to deal with extremist behaviors in their local communities. This state-level effort to reduce violent extremism and VEOs behavior is absent throughout Africa, especially in Nigeria. This gap is the focal point of our investigation into how external resource dependence affects CBOs in northeast Nigeria. We triangulated our data sources using secondary data, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions. However, this study discovered that in Nigeria, external donor agencies, NGOs, and organizations that support CBOs financially, logistically, materially, and in terms of training also tend to impact their programming selection, training content, and accountability.
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Notes on contributors
Nsemba Edward Lenshie
Nsemba Edward Lenshie is a teaching staff member in Political Science within the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Taraba State University, located in Jalingo, Taraba State, Nigeria. He is completing his doctoral degree in Political Science at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He has published in esteemed academic journals such as Armed Forces and Society, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Society, Local Environment, and African Identities.
Buhari Shehu Miapyen
Buhari Shehu Miapyen is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Taraba State University. He focuses his research on the realms of inequality generated by capitalism, explicitly examining how various forms of inequality further the capitalist accumulation system. His latest publication delves into reviewing the efficacy of Cedric Robinson's theoretical framework in elucidating the concept of racial capitalism within the African context. He has published in Review of African Political Economy, Identities, Antipods and Journal of Asian and African Studies.
Adamson Duncan Ganiyu
Adamson Duncan Ganiyu is completing his doctorate in political economy at the Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria Nsukka, in Nigeria.
Jonathan S. Maiangwa
Jonathan S. Maiangwa is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science, University of Maiduguri Borno State, Nigeria. Maiangwa holds PhD in Political Science, and his research interests are and his research interests are in terrorism, countering violent extremism, militia and local security institutions in Africa and security governance. He is a member of the Midwest Political Science Association, USA (#159536), Nigerian Political Science Association and a Laureate of Council for the Development of Economic and Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal. Maiangwa is the author of a book titled, “The Concept of Terrorism in Africa” widely in circulation.
Christian Ezeibe
Christian Ezeibe is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Climate Change Studies, Energy and Environment, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His areas of research include election, political economy and sustainable development.