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Abosede Babatunde

Prof. Dr. Abosede Omowumi Babatunde

Landhaus Fellow

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Abosede Omowumi Babatunde is associate professor at the Center for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. She is a former member of the Governing Council of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). Abosede has been awarded several distinguished academic fellowships, including an African Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010), an American Council of Learned Societies and the Research Fellowship in Peace Studies (2013), a Carson Fellowship (2017–18), and a fellowship at Brown International Advanced Research Institute (2017). In 2019, she was a guest researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden. Her work has been supported by research grants from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), the African Peacebuilding Network of the Social Science Research Council (APN/SSRC), the APSA’s Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs, and the International Peace Research Association Foundation (IPRAF).

RCC Research Project: Transcending Gender Norms: Women and the Dynamics of Petro-Conflict in Nigeria’s Niger Delta

Selected publications:

  • “Oil Exploitation and Food Insecurity in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.” The Journal of Modern African Studies 61, no. 2 (June 2023): 165–87. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X23000010.
  • “Local Perspectives on Food Security in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.” The Extractive Industries and Society 7, no. 3 (July 2020): 931–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.07.011.
  • “Oil pollution and Water Conflicts in the Riverine Communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region: Challenges for and Elements of Problem-Solving Strategies.” Journal of Contemporary African Studies 38, no. 2 (2020): 274–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2020.1730310.
  • “Environmental Conflict, Traditional Institutions, and Durable Peace in Niger Delta.” African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 9, no. 2 (Fall 2012): 33–54. https://doi.org/10.2979/africonfpeacrevi.9.2.03.
  • “From Peaceful to Non-Peaceful Protests: The Trajectories of Women Movements in the Niger Delta.” In The Unfinished Revolution in Nigeria’s Niger Delta: Prospects for Environmental Justice and Peace, edited by Cyril Obi and Temitope Oriola, 103–19. London: Routledge, 2018.
  • “Environmental Insecurity and Poverty in the Niger Delta: A Case of Ilaje.” African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 7, no. 2 (Fall 2017): 36–59. https://doi.org/10.2979/africonfpeacrevi.7.2.02.