Why Vigilantes and Boko Haram are parallel actors in Lake Chad’s hybrid security order – and why that matters
Security debates in the Lake Chad Basin often cast vigilante groups as essential community protectors responding to Boko Haram’s insurgency. That is largely accurate. Yet it can obscure a core reality of the conflict: vigilantes and Boko Haram insurgents are products of the same social worlds shaped by weak and uneven state authority, fluid state... The post Why Vigilantes and Boko Haram are parallel actors in Lake Chad’s hybrid security order – and why that matters first appeared on Democracy in Africa.
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Security debates in the Lake Chad Basin often cast vigilante groups as essential community protectors responding to Boko Haram’s insurgency. That is largely accurate. Yet it can obscure a core reality of the conflict: vigilantes and Boko Haram insurgents are products of the same social worlds shaped by weak and uneven state authority, fluid state...
The post Why Vigilantes and Boko Haram are parallel actors in Lake Chad’s hybrid security order – and why that matters first appeared on Democracy in Africa.
