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Conflict and Violence in the Lake Chad Basin
Insecurity in Central Africa
Edited by Emmanuel Chauvin, Olivier Langlois, Christian Seignobos and Catherine Baroin
384 pages, 44 ills., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-83695-106-3 $150.00/£115.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (August 2025)
eISBN 978-1-83695-107-0 eBook Not Yet Published
Description
Ranging from Boko Haram to the war in the Central African Republic, insecurity forms a major factor among societies in the Lake Chad Basin (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Niger, Nigeria, Chad). Marred by conflict and violence, these territories are difficult to access and not well-known, so they tend to be out of reach for scholarly study and development programs. The long-term and in-depth field studies that this volume presents offer a window on conflict analysis based on insights into local dynamics and the lived world of the people themselves.
Emmanuel Chauvin is a geographer, lecturer at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès and at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Solidarity, Societies, Territories (UMR LISST,France).
Olivier Langlois is an archaeologist and research director at the CNRS and the UMR ‘Cultures et environnements Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge’ (UMR Cepam, France).
Christian Seignobos is a geographer, and emeritus research director at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France.
Catherine Baroin is an anthropologist and research director at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and is part of Prehistoric Ethnology of the UMR ‘Archéologies et sciences de l’Antiquité’ (UMR Arscan, France).