National Security, Property Rights, and Development in Nigeria: How Should the Leviathan Resolve Herder-Farmer Conflict?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Chidebe Matthew Nwankwo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
National Security ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
Nomadic Pastoralists ◽  
Small Measure ◽  
Agrarian Communities ◽  
The Right ◽  
Security Property

Abstract The spate of violent clashes between nomadic pastoralists and agrarian communities in Nigeria raises a number of legal and policy questions that had been long overlooked. Issues arising from the phenomenon range from questions over constitutionally guaranteed rights such as the right to own property, to questions over the inadequacies of Nigeria’s security apparatus as well as calls for land use reforms. Additionally, due to the groups affected and the scale of casualties, the topic has become a political molten magma. The constant conflicts between nomadic pastoralists who are majorly from the Fulani ethnic group, and agrarian communities from other parts of the country have reached unprecedented levels leading to accusations of coordinated attempts at land grab, ethnic cleansing, jihad and insurgency, threatening the country’s security and stability in the process. Fiscally, the destruction of lives and property and the state of insecurity emanating from the clashes stood at $16 billion in potential revenue as at 2018. In no small measure have these clashes been precipitated by climate change and the consequent drought in the Sahara region. This paper analyses the role of the Nigerian state in balancing the interests of affected groups in the clashes and promoting development. At its core, it seeks to identify legal and policy gaps that require filling to put a definite end to the lingering crisis.

scholarly journals Climate and wartalk: Metaphors, imagination, transformation

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupinder Mangat ◽  
Simon Dalby
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
National Security ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Sustainable Society ◽  
Fossil Fuel Industry ◽  
War Metaphor ◽  
Fuel Industry ◽  
Change Problem

Fossil fuel divestment activists re-imagine how the war metaphor can be used in climate change action to transform thinking around what will lead to a sustainable society. Through the naming of a clear enemy and an end goal, the overused war metaphor is renewed. By casting the fossil fuel industry in the role of enemy, fossil fuel divestment activists move to a re-imagining of the climate change problem as one that is located in the here and now with known villains who must be challenged and defeated. In this scenario, climate activists move away from the climate and national security framing to a climate and human security way of thinking.

scholarly journals A NEW CONTEXT AND AESTHETICS OF SERBIAN TRADITIONAL CUISINE IN THE AGE OF PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Stojanović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Food Science ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Right

The new millennium brings new twists, as we are witnessing old becoming new again and cultures and cuisines repeating themselves. Culture has always followed or imposed contemporary challenges. Consequently, food culture also participates in global occurrences, such as the recurrence of economic collapses, health cataclysms, natural disasters, the consequences of climate change, etc. The 2020 global pandemic has indicated that the planet is not going in the right direction. The aim is to observe deeper meanings and paradoxes, predict the consequences and describe the role of new approaches and technologies in the traditional gastronomy of the region on the basis of empirical evidence and a case study for the location of Serbia. The dynamics of experience, authenticity, re-representations in the form of new aesthetics are being examined. New culinologies, as a combination of culinary art and food science, will define the future of food in the age of pandemic and as well as new challenges in general, in order to neutralize them or use their power for the sake of humanity.

scholarly journals The Evolving Role of Environmental Rights in Climate Change Litigation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J Preston
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Environmental Rights ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Trust Doctrine ◽  
Change Context ◽  
The Right

AbstractLitigation raising climate change issues has increased in the number and types of cases across a growing number of national and international jurisdictions. An emergent trend is litigation that invokes particular legal rights to address climate change issues. Referred to collectively in this article as ‘environmental rights,’ these include rights established under the public trust doctrine, as well as within the realms of constitutional and human rights, including the right to life and right to a quality environment. This article surveys the development of climate change litigation—in various jurisdictions around the world—in which parties have sought to invoke these environmental rights. In addition to examining how climate change litigation has adapted rights-based claims made in earlier, more traditional litigation, this article reviews recent significant cases and examines how this growing body of case law is contributing to an expansion in the content of fundamental rights in the climate change context.

scholarly journals La última jurisprudencia de la Corte Costituzionale italiana en materia de secretos de Estado

2013 ◽  
pp. 503
Author(s):  
Susana Sánchez Ferro
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
The Right

La Corte Costituzionale italiana, en las sentencias 106/2009, de 8 de abril (sobre el programa de extraordinary renditions) y 40/2012, de 29 de febrero, se enfrenta por primera vez a la cuestión de cuál deba ser su papel en la fiscalización de los secretos de Estado. Hasta ese momento, la Corte Costituzionale se había pronunciado únicamente sobre el control de los secretos de Estado por los jueces y tribunales ordinarios. La Corte aborda también en estas sentencias el problema de la colisión entre el derecho de defensa y la necesidad de protección de la seguridad del Estado y proporciona una solución novedosa a la cuestión. En relación con la fiscalización de los secretos de Estado, la Corte se muestra, en nuestra opinión, demasiado deferente hacia el Ejecutivo.The Italian Constitutional Court in its Judgments 106/2009 and 40/2012 had to define its fole in the oversight of official secrets. In previous judgments the Italian Constitutional Court had pronounced itself upon the role of the ordinary courts on this field but not upon his own role. In the judgments 106/2009 and 40/2012 the Italian Constitutional Court also deals will the question of the collision between the right to denfece and the need to protect national security. It gives an entirely new solution to the problem. As to the oversight of official secrets, the Italian Constitutional Court is quite deferential towards the Executive.

scholarly journals Climate Change and Security: Filling Remaining Gaps

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Yasuko Kameyama ◽  
Yukari Takamura
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
National Security ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Security Discourse ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Regional Imbalance

As perception of climate change as a threat to humanity and to ecosystems grows, the rapidly growing literature increasingly refers to the notion of “climate change and security,” for which there is as yet no single agreed definition. Despite the extent of literature already published, there are at least three remaining gaps: (1) Added theoretical value: How does “climate change and security” differ from similar notions such as “climate crisis” and “climate emergency”? What theoretical gains can be made by securing against climate change? (2) Role of non-state actors: The traditional concept of security is tightly bound to the notion of national security, but the climate change and security discourse opens the door to the participation of non-state actors such as the business sector, local government, and citizens. How do they take part in ensuring security? (3) Regional imbalance: Most of the literature on climate change and security published so far comes from Europe and North America. As other regions, such as Asia, are just as affected, more voices should be heard from those regions. This issue aims to address some of these gaps. The nine articles in this issue address the notion of “climate change and security” through empirical work while theoretically contributing to several themes relating to the climate change and security discourse.

The role of the right inferior frontal gyrus following reversal of consistent stimulus-stop mappings

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maisy Best ◽  
Tobias Stevens ◽  
Fraser Milton ◽  
Christopher D. Chambers ◽  
Ian P. McLaren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inferior Frontal Gyrus ◽  
The Right

Managing Landscape Irrigation to Avoid Soil and Nutrient Losses

EDIS ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
George Hochmuth ◽  
Laurie Trenholm ◽  
Don Rainey ◽  
Esen Momol ◽  
Claire Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Root Zone ◽  
Irrigation Management ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Nutrient Losses ◽  
County Agents ◽  
The Right ◽  
Soil And Water

Proper irrigation management is critical to conserve and protect water resources and to properly manage nutrients in the home landscape. How lawns and landscapes are irrigated directly impacts the natural environment, so landscape maintenance professionals and homeowners must adopt environmentally-friendly approaches to irrigation management. After selecting the right plant for the right place, water is the next critical factor to establish and maintain a healthy lawn and landscape. Fertilization is another important component of lawn and landscape maintenance, and irrigation must be applied correctly, especially following fertilization, to minimize potential nutrient losses. This publication supplements other UF/IFAS Extension publications that also include information on the role of soil and the root zone in irrigation management. This publication is designed to help UF/IFAS Extension county agents prepare materials to directly address nutrient losses from lawns and landscapes caused by inadequate irrigation management practices. This 6-page fact sheet was written by George Hochmuth, Laurie Trenholm, Don Rainey, Esen Momol, Claire Lewis, and Brian Niemann, and published by the UF Department of Soil and Water Science, October 2013. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss586

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