Niger Delta Cell
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The ongoing crisis in the Niger Delta has locked the area into perpetual unrest.  It accounts for thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in lost property, revenues and international investments.  The threat to the Nigerian state and its nationals could be deemed existential.  The crisis also plagues the energy security of multiple nations, and promotes chronic instability across markets local, national and worldwide.  Paradoxically, though, it is fueled by a robust economy of conflict that is aggressively stable.  The choice to participate in this economy can be rational.   Yet each decision to do so worsens the bind for all.  It is a system in which everyone loses.

Achieving change requires optimism.  The Niger Delta crisis can be solved.  Creativity, collaboration and will are needed, and very real hurdles exist.  But it can be done.  The Transnational Crisis Project's Niger Delta Cell seeks to galvanise all parties to the crisis into taking self-interested action to promote the shared interests of all.  

The people of the Niger Delta are both victims and active players in the conflict economy.  Seeing them as such, we believe, is the only road to lasting change.  Our research combines analysis of structural problems afflicting the area with a focus on understanding the needs and perceptions of local populations.  The recommendations that follow will transform complexity into collaboration, laying out the practical and profitable steps each party should take to advance common good.
 
Publications Print E-mail

New: Report One - Antidote to Violence? Lessons for the Federal Government's ten percent community royalty from the oil company experience. 

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Beginning with a series of in-depth analytical reports, the Niger Delta Cell will produce bottom-line analysis and recommendations for decision-makers in the private, public and third sectors worldwide. Our reports will present the complexities of the Niger Delta accessibly, focussing on achieving progress rather than laying blame. We place at the centre of our analysis the need to understand the role of the population of the Delta as both actor and victim of the crisis, in equal standing with each of the other major stakeholders, from the oil companies to the state governments. View Publications.
 
Resources Print E-mail

The Niger Delta Cell aspires to provide analysts and decision makers worldwide with the most comprehensive repository online of primary sources pertaining to the Niger Delta.

Our launching collection comprises all four constitutions of Nigeria, all the major militant declarations of 1990 - 2000, the principal laws that contribute positively or negatively to the conflict economy in the Delta, and a series of independent and governmental reports addressing the Delta, from the Willink Report of 1958 to the Niger Delta Technical Committee report of 2008. We will continue to expand this collection in the coming months. View Resources.