International

Organizations'
role in Islamist
insurgency in
Nigeria.

Abigail Pea Alejos

Lobachevsky State University of Nizhniy Novgorod (UNN)

Federal Republic of
Nigeria
Capital: Abuja
Largest city: Lagos
Official languages:
English
Major languages: Hausa,
Igbo, Yoruba
Ethnicgroups:
21%
Yoruba,21%Hausa,
18%Igbo,
11%Fulani,
9%Urhobo-Isoko,
7%Efik-Ibibio,
4%Kanuri,
3%Edo,
2%Tiv,
2%Ijaw,
2%Nupe,
1%Bura,

Boko Haram at a glance

Boko
Haram
=
"Western education
is forbidden" in the
Hausa/Arabic
language.

Founded in 2002,
launched
military
operations in 2009 to
create Islamic state.

Thousands
killed,
mostly
in
northeastern Nigeria - also
attacked police and
UN headquarters in
capital, Abuja.

Abducted hundreds,
including at least
200 [276] schoolgirls
( April 2013)

 Control

several
north-eastern towns.

Designated

a
terrorist group by US
in 2013.

Declared

a caliphate
in areas it controlled
in 2014.

Most

territory now
recaptured by army.

Boko Haram by numbers

(2014)

 International Criminal Court (ICC)

United Nations (UN) Security Council Statements
North Atlantic Treat Alliance (NATO)

Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS

African Union - AU

Nigerian State

INTERNATI
ONAL

Regio
nal
Natio
nal

International organizations
and their responses to BH

Economic Community of West

African States (ECOWAS)
A

limited reaction to the ongoing crisis.

March 2014, ECOWAS denounced the 25

February attack on the Yobe state school.

The

Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace

and Security of ECOWASconfirmed a
partnership with the UN and the Nigerian
government in a new Weapon Collection
Programme for northern Nigeria.

African Union (AU)

Regional

security efforts aimed at

combating terrorism.
Support for the government of
Nigerias fight against Boko Haram.
Cooperation with EU, NATO, Nigerian
and other African Armies.(20142015)

North Atlantic Treaty

Organization

[] I think it is important to work with

them [North African countries] to try to
enable them to create stability, to fight
terror, to increase their own defense
capacity. So thats part of our dialogue
with countries in Africa, is how can we
assist, help them to create stability
in their own countries and in their own
region. And I would welcome actually to
develop more co-operation also with
the African Union and that is something I
am going to look into, how we can not
only work with individual countries in
Africa but also work more closely with
the African Union. And north Africa is
close to NATO borders and also I would
like to underline that NATO Allies are
participating in the fight against
terrorism, extremism in Africa.
French troops, French forces are there,
some other NATO Allies are also
contributing to the efforts to fight
extremism, violence in Africa.

HIGHLIGHTS

Every
participating

country agreed that

this form of solidarity
was at the heart of the
Treaty,
effectively
making Article 5 on
collective defence a key
component
of
the

NATOs Counter-Terrorism Policy

on three main areas: awareness,
capabilities and engagement.
Development of new capabilities
and technologies to tackle the
terrorist threat and to manage the
consequences of a terrorist attack.
Cooperation with partners and
international
organizations
to
leverage the full potential of each
stakeholder engaged in the global
counter-terrorism effort.

European Union (EU)

Several programmes and financing instruments to
support Nigerian government .
Cotonou

Agreement.

National

Indicative Programme.

Instrument

for Stability (IfS).Includes EU counterterrorism since May 2014.

Bilateral

and regional strategic documents:

Nigeria-EU Joint Way Forward.

AIMS
End to the culture of entrenched impunity and human
rights abuses.

Ensuring the protection of civilian populations, and

improve the capacities of law enforcement.

Improvement of the gathering, processing and effective

use of intelligence within Nigeria and beyond its borders.

Engagement in addressing the governance deficit and

system-wide corruption at all levels.

Encouragement and facilitation of

Nigerian states.

dialogue across all

International Criminal
Court (ICC)

Nigeria, a State Party to the Rome Statute.

Itsobligationto ensure that crimes that shock the
conscience of humanity(5 August 2013)

2014: Crimes against humanity have been committed

by Boko Haram and the Nigerian Army fall under the
Courts scrutiny.

2015: ICC Prosecutor Bensouda denounced

disturbingescalationin the levels of violence.

Conclusion: ICC is conducting an examination of the

situation in the country.

United Nations (UN)

20
January
2010
Secretary-General
Ban
KiMoonexpressedserious concern on about the renewed
violence and crimes in Nigeria.

14 March 2014, Ms. Navi Pillay reported that human rights

violations committed by BH and security forces, half a million
people disclosed to have been displaced within Nigeria.

23 May 2014 Boko Haram has been put on UN terror

sanctions list

Security Council Statements

19 January 2015, Security Councilcondemned the recent
escalation in attacks by Boko Haram. The Multinational Joint
Task Force is welcomed to combat Boko Haram.

Anti-Boko Haram force set to begin

joint raids, U.N. rep says
Nigerian

and Chadian forces early this

year forced the militant group, which
has sworn allegiance to Islamic State,
to cede large swathes of territory in
northern Nigeria, undermining its sixyear campaign to carve out a caliphate.
Emma Farge, Reuters: (Oct 29, 2015)

Conclusion

The conflict in Nigeria is an example of a

states inability to protect civilians from
organized killings conducted by a non-state
insurgency group.
Boko Haram attacks are not the only issue
facing the country.
Organizations agreed that BH and Nigerian
army have committed crimes against
humanity. Some opinions stressed that,
actually, many organizations secretly endure
BH.

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