Title

One Voice, Multiple Tongues: Dialoguing with Boko Haram

Abstract

Using "official" documents from the government and Boko Haram and other fundamentalist Islamic groups in Nigeria, this study examines the prognosis of the dialogue option between the Boko Haram fundamentalist Islamist group and the federal government of Nigeria. To achieve this, the study compares the stated and inferential motives of Boko Haram with Nigeria's pluralist nature and argues that insofar as Boko Haram remains an internal dialogue within Islam, especially in northern Nigeria, and an offshoot of a process derived from socioeconomic and political imbalances in contemporary Nigeria, the government could dialogue with Boko Haram on the second issue but would breach its own constitution and legal codes on the first.

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History

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/17419166.2013.858031

Keywords

Boko Haram, dialogue, fundamentalist, Nigeria, Salafism, terrorism, Wahhabism

Publication Date

2014

Journal Title

Democracy and Security

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