
Dr. Michael Nwankpa discusses about The Recurrent Accidental Military Airstrikes in Nigeria with Dr. Ndubuisi Nwokolo. Dr. Ndubuisi Nwokolo is a Pracademic with hands-on experience in Security Policy, Conflict Analysis, Political Risks, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development in Africa and other emerging economies. He have also developed a significant understanding of Local Governance, Security Sector Reform, Stabilization, Resilience, and Natural Resource Issues. He also provide analytical insights as an analyst on major developments in Africa for major local and foreign radio and television networks, such as Channels TV, AIT, RISE TV, NTA, TVC, Radio Now, Pulse TV, Voice of America(VoA) CGTN(China Global Television Network), TRT World (The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation), BBC, etc.
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.