| Due to the gradually expanding frontiers of insurgency in the country, especially in the Northern part of the country, experts from diverse fields would converge on August 8, 2014 in a security conference to brainstorm on Nigeria’s security, peace and foreign relations.
Arrangements have been concluded for the commencement of a the conference tagged, Nigeria Security Summit, which will hold on Friday, August 8, 2014 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, (Knafel Center) Harvard University in the United States, and has its theme as “Insurgency, Nigeria and Beyond”.
The summit will feature five sub-themes including ‘Challenges of governance in an era of Insurgency’; ‘An unfavorable investment climate compounded by insecurity’; ‘Chibok Abduction: Implications for international intervention on Nigerian sovereignty’; ‘February 2015 Elections: Moment of truth’ and ‘Beyond the BokoHaram insurgency’
According to statement by the convener of the summit, Mr. Emmanuel Asiwe, a renowned journalist and publisher, the objectives of the summit is to reflect on the unfolding security situation in the country; to discuss the spatial governance of crime in Nigeria and proffer solutions to the BokoHaram phenomenon
According to the statement, facilitators of the summit include the current National Security Adviser (NSA) to President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria, Colonel SamboDasuki; the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States of America, Prof. AdebowaleIbidapoAdefuye; President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation (1993–2010) and Fulbright Research Chairman in Political Development at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada, Prof. Robert Irwin Rotberg and Prof.NimiWariboko, who is a Katherine B. Stuart Professor of Christian Ethics and previously taught at New York University and the Frank G. Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University, New York.
Others include the member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Professor of public policy, who researches and teaches on asymmetric conflict and international relations theory, Prof. Max Abrahms; President of the International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA), and the Global Information System (GIS), Prof. Gregory Copley and a Professor of Criminal Justice and member of the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Prof. Kingsley Ejiogu. The rest are the incumbent Chairman House Committee on Interior, Hon. UmarBature; novelist and political columnist, OkeyNdibe; and Professor of Humanities at Alabama State University, Prof SabellaAbidde.
Nigeria is the most populous black nation in the world and it is believed that a security crisis in Nigeria would have far reaching detrimental consequences on the West African sub-region.
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