11:30 - 13:00
Oral session
Room: Muirhead - Room 113
Stream: New Perspectives on African Regions and Regionalisms
Chair/s:
Oluwabamidele Kogbe
Finding a regional security complex: a case of the Lake Chad Basin region.
Manu Lekunze
Coventry University, Coventry

In April 2014 the world woke up to the kidnapping of 276 girls from a school in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. This shone a spotlight on the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram and the region from which it operates. The incident of Boko Haram has exposed the complications in the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) region and implications on national, regional and international security. This international attention lead to a UN Security Council mission to the Lake Chad basin from the 1st to 7th March 2017 and UN Resolution 2349 of 31st March 2017. The LCB region is at the heart of Africa geographically and its regional organisation the Lake Chad Basin commission contains some of the most important countries in Africa with regards to contemporary African security. These include Nigeria, Libya, Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, Central African Republic and Sudan. The purpose of this article is to use Buzan’s (1991) theories on regional security complexes to formulate and answer questions on whether the LBC region constitutes a regional security complex. The conceptualisation of the LBC as a regional security complex aids analysis and understanding of the region which may contribute to the development of regional security policy.


Reference:
Tu-A34 Regions and Regionalisms-P-005
Presenter/s:
Manu Lekunze
Presentation type:
Panel
Room:
Muirhead - Room 113
Chair/s:
Oluwabamidele Kogbe
Date:
Tuesday, 11 September
Time:
12:30 - 12:45
Session times:
11:30 - 13:00