Achebe, Christian Chukwuebuka Christian <br/><br/>
FROM NATIONAL TERROR TO TRANSNATIONAL  TERRORISTS / 
  BOKO HARAM AND LAKE CHAD  BASIN EXPERIENCE 
CHRISTIAN CHUKWUEBUKA ACHEBE; SUPERVISOR: DR. ANTHONY ENIAYEJUNI 
 - v, 50 sheets;  31 cm.  Includes CD 
<br/><br/>Thesis (MA) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research International Relations Department 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliography (sheets 48-50) 
<br/><br/> ABSTRACT<br/>Politically, the maintenance of peace and security is a primary concern that <br/>predominates the interest of state political actors throughout all regions of the world. <br/>Security threats most times are undoubtedly homegrown starting at the national level <br/>before spreading across the region. Regional threats to security equally requires <br/>regional cooperation and responses to pacify or rectify the crisis. The specific question <br/>that this thesis addresses is: What factors contributed to the trans-nationalization of <br/>Boko Haram into the countries of the Lake Chad region? Therefore, the main purpose <br/>of this thesis is to study the factors that lead to the transnational spread of Boko Haram <br/>- one of the world's deadliest terrorist groups, that originated as a homegrown terror <br/>group in the socio-economic, political and religious environment of northeastern <br/>Nigeria, with its base originally located in Sambisa forest, but has since expanded its <br/>tentacles into the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) sub-region. Furthermore, this thesis aims to <br/>analyze the rate of cooperation among affected countries and how it has influenced the <br/>counter-terrorism objectives in the region. Relying on social conflict theory <br/>(Marxism), this thesis argues that Boko Haram, which emerged as homegrown terror <br/>group in northeastern Nigeria, was able to transform into a fierce transnational terrorist <br/>group operating majorly in the Lake Chad region due to the similar social conditions <br/>in existence within the region. They group succeeded in exploiting the related social <br/>resentment and questioning the welfare disparities among the disadvantaged <br/>communities in the region and turning them to work in their favor. By making their <br/>course a political agenda, they ensured that local communities gave them their support <br/>in spite of their varied religious affiliations. This aided them to recruit members from <br/>other neighboring countries who share related social resentment against their political <br/>leaders. This thesis employed a qualitative method. Its analysis are basically <br/>descriptive in nature, thus, it relies deliberately on secondary sources whose data <br/>collections are from both academic and non-academic such as unpublished thesis, <br/>journals, seminar papers, articles, etc. The conclusion reached in this thesis is that <br/>ethnic, social, religious, political, and economic factors necessitated the transnationalization of Boko Haram, and this finding has important implications for<br/>tackling security threats in the Lake Chad region, addressing counter-terrorism in <br/>general, and the overall defeat of Boko Haram.<br/>Keywords: Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch, International Criminal Court, Lake <br/>Chad, Nigeria, Terrorism 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human rights--Nigeria--Dissertations, Academic<br/>Terrorism--Nigeria--Dissertations, Academic<br/>International criminal courts--Dissertations, Academic