Episode 102 – Canadian Court Labels Nigeria’s Major Political Parties as Terrorist Organizations
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Dr. Michael Nwankpa discusses about the Canadian court’s proscription of Nigeria’s Major Political parties as terrorist organizations with Jaye Gaskia.
Jaye Gaskia is a public affairs and political commentator and analyst, as well as a governance & development strategist & specialist with skills, competences and expertise in conflict transformation; peace building, peace & security, participatory governance and development, community mobilizing and empowerment, youth empowerment, gender equality and empowerment, design and implementation of strategic and operational plan frameworks, advocacy and campaigning, capacity building and mentoring, relationship building, networking and coalition building, mass organizing and mobilizing. He is a also an activist and active citizen.
A delegate to the 2014 National Conference In Nigeria representing Civil Society, he has worked at the most senior management and technical positions in at lease 3 International Development Agencies in Nigeria & currently Chairs or Co-Chairs top notch civil society and multi-stakeholder networks or platforms. Jaye Gaskia is an Original Thinker, an Organic Intellectual, a Public Academic, a Peoples’ Scholar, and a Humanist.
About the Podcast
The Conflict & Development in Africa podcast brings experts from Africa and the world as guests to discuss critical conflict and development issues that affect Africa. Our guests include practitioners, academics, journalists, researchers, policy makers and advocates that are renowned and are nationally and internationally recognized for their work, expertise and contribution to conflict and development issues in Africa. Our audience includes policy makers, governments, researchers, students, businesses and anyone that is interested in conflict and development issues in Africa.
About the Host
Dr Michael Nwankpa has an extensive experience spanning over a decade studying, researching, writing and consulting on conflict and development issues in Africa.
Michael Nwankpa has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He has held several research fellowships including as a Rice University Fellow and a terrorism research Fellow (past) at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland. He is currently a fellow at the Royal United Service Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) and a research fellow at the Geneva-based Centre on Armed Groups. Dr. Nwankpa has extensive experience studying counterterrorism and counterinsurgency strategies, advising relevant government development departments and security agencies, and consulting for multilateral organizations. Michael is the author of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, 1999-2021: A Militarized Democracy (Routledge 2022) and co-author of the seminal work on Boko Haram, The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State (Oxford University Press/Hurst 2018). He has written several articles and is currently working on three book projects.