Niger Delta Conflicts: A Case Study

freely declaring greed based inspirations would reduce their backing. As an outcome, their fundamental explanation for the onset of conflict is insatiability, fighters care only for the financial acquisition that they can acquire from primary commodities under conflict. Among the economic factors that influence the risk of conflict, natural resource dependence, in particular, appears to play a significant part. Statistical analysis of previous conflicts propose that high “primary commodity” dependence is one of three economic factors which amplifies any country’s risk of conflict, the other two being low levels of income per capita and a slow rate of economic growth or active economic decline (Collier & Hoeffler 2002). Further on Collier and

What is the role of the Nigerian government and oil companies in the Niger Delta conflict?

Methods
Research methodology signify the perception of the whole research process – even including socio-organizational setting, philosophical hypothesis, moral standards and the political cause of new learning for the research project (Neuman: 2011).
The Case study blueprint
The section will clarify the case study blueprint for this paper. There are two important classification of case study according to Yin (2003). The scope of the paper starts with the technical classification, and then a case paper is an empirical study that studies an occurrence in a particular environment, more especially in the absence of specific clarities to the occurrences. Secondly, the other definition is the case study analysis; here it manages the technically characteristic situation which gives several more variables of interest than data points.
To comprehend the intricacy of social phenomenon presented by the paper, i.e. greed, grievance, land degradation, pollution, marginalization, population growth, oil benefits, violence conflicts etc., the paper assumes a single case study technique for that

Through a design of a single case study approach, the paper will try to relate the results to theoretical framework adopted from basic conflict theory. The use of theories is necessary for interpreting the case study results because the whole research design embodies a theory of what is being studied (Yin, 2003:29-30). The Niger Delta conflict is the focus of the paper and that includes the oil bearing communities of the Niger Delta because of their shared socio-political, economic and cultural features despite coming from different states in the Niger delta region, such as those in Abia (particularly Ukwa community), Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta states where the conflict is situated at. However, information from Niger Delta as a whole were analyzed together not using a comparative case method. The study employs a single narrative technique as the basic unit of the collective study, thereby allowing information collected from the conflict to be analyzed as a single study, a comparative analysis will manifest later (Shkedi,