Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/303211 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/24/025
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
Nigeria's oil-producing region is experiencing a surge in community-based vigilante violence, potentially escalating conflict dynamics and increasing fear of injury. The reason it matters is that neighborhood vigilante groups are more likely to participate in criminal, political, and ethnic plotting and are not always controllable. This prompted us to look into whether GMoU cluster interventions by MOCs could lower the heat map of fatalities from vigilante violence in Nigeria's Niger Delta. The results of logit regression and propensity score matching demonstrate that the MOCs' limited CSR efforts to protect the area have been successful in creating, formalizing, equipping, and managing vigilante groups. The results also show that the CSR initiatives have reduced vigilante violence within and between host communities, as well as violence against their residents. This implies that raising awareness of CSR with the goal of strengthening vigilante control will strengthen the local security apparatus, discourage resurgence in the various rural areas, safeguard the workers and equipment of oil firms, and provide a favorable business environment in the area.
Subjects: 
Vigilante violence
environmental justice
corporate social responsibility
oil producing communities
sub-Saharan Africa
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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