Publications

Links to useful sources of information about the conflict can be found in the sections below. These include reports and statements from governmental and non-governmental organisations and religious entities. For academic papers, see the Academic Articles sub-page.

The following websites provide useful information on Nigeria and the conflict:

• Nigeria Watch violent deaths database
• Council on Foreign Relations, Nigeria Security Tracker
• Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), Nigeria country information
• Nigeria data portal

The following is a list of authoritative reports from governmental and non-governmental organisations:

• SB Morgen report, October 2019: Stalemate: Boko Haram's new strategy requires it to commit fewer attacks
• Human Rights Watch report, September 2019: Military Detention of Children for Suspected Boko Haram Involvement in Northeast Nigeria
• Human Rights Watch World Report 2019, Nigeria Chapter
• Bishop of Truro's Independent Review for the Foreign Secretary of FCO Support for Persecuted Christians, Nigeria chapter
• Global Terrorism Index 2018
• United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Annual Report 2019 Nigeria Chapter
• USCIRF report, February 2019: Central Nigeria, overcoming dangerous speech and endemic religious divides 
• US Department of State Nigeria 2017 International Religious Freedom Report
• Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Spotlight, 11 January 2017: Africa’s Pastoralists: A New Battleground for Terrorism
• Institute for Security Studies (ISS): Factional Dynamics within Boko Haram
• International Crisis Group report, 16 May 2019: Facing the Challenge of the Islamic State in West Africa Province
• International Crisis Group report, 26 July 2018: Stopping Nigeria’s Spiralling Farmer-Herder Violence
• Council on Foreign Relations, The Numbers Behind Sectarian Violence in Nigeria
• ACLED: 10 Hidden Conflicts in Africa: #6 The Fulani Ethnic Militia in Nigeria 
• Jamestown Foundation Terrorism Monitor Volume 17, Issue 6: The Return of al-Qaeda's Faction in Nigeria: What's Going on in Zamfara?
• Nigerian Government, The National Livestock Transformation Plan, June 2018 
• Amnesty International report: Nigeria: The Harvest of Death - Three Years of Bloody Clashes Between Farmers and Herders in Nigeria

18 October 2019 - Delayed justice for victims of herdsmen's killings

Statement by Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on failure of President Buhari to bring farmers' killers to justice

12 September 2019 - Nigeria: 22,000 people registered as missing after a decade of war, ICRC's highest caseload in the world

ICRC News release

2 September 2019 - End of visit statement of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on her visit to Nigeria

by Agnes Callamard

26 August 2019 - HURIWA demands whereabouts of over 300 suspected kidnappers

Statement by Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria regarding failure of police to bring prosecutions

25 August 2019 - EDO International Congress Press Statement on Ruga

24 July 2019 - Killing of Mrs Olufunke Olakunrin (née Fasoranti): Our Stand

Statement by Chief Ayo Adebanjo on behalf of Yoruba socio-cultural organisation Afenifere

22 July 2019 - Yoruba Question in Nigeria's Conundrum

Open letter by Alaafin of Oyo Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III to President Buhari on the state of the nation

6 July 2019 - A rejoinder, re: Nigerian Government letter to UK APGG IFoRB denies persecution of Christians

Statement by National Christian Elders Forum, NCEF, to the UK Parliament

2 June 2019 - Nigeria is under attack

Statement by Anthony Cardinal Okogie, Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos

June 2019 - Competing Ideologies of Democracy and Sharia in Nigeria; The Nuance Understating of the Drivers of the Conflict in Nigeria by Farmers and Herdsmen

Submission to UK parliament by Nigerian Christian Elders Forum (NCEF)

25 May 2019 – 7 Days Final Quit Notice to All Fulani Herdsmen in South West

Press release by Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide (YCYW)

7 May 2019 – The Challenges of Mitigating Herdsmen Attacks on People of Nigeria: Lessons from Benue State

Keynote address given by Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom at University of Nigeria, Nsukka

6 November 2018  – Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) report to President Buhari 

Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria statements:

• 29 June 2018 – Shameful Inversion of values, Statement on the Plateau State Massacre 
• 26 April 2018 – When will this barbarism end?, Statement on the murder of two priests and 15 parishioners in Mbalom, Benue State 
• 16 January 2018 – On the recurrent wave of violence…, Statement on the attacks across Nigeria