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West Africa petro-states as one of the latest global oil frontiers stand to reap huge windfalls from rising global demand for their oil exports, but they also face fundamental challenges regarding economic growth, poverty reduction, stability, security and sustainable development. Their interactions and partnerships with oildependent global powers call for fresh ideas, and theoretical, analytical and policy-relevant perspectives to ensure that new oil states such as Mauritania, Ghana, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Chad and Sao Tome and Principe, and established ones like Nigeria, Gabon, Congo Republic and Angola, can fully engage the challenge of (re) defining their partnerships and priorities for resource governance, environmental justice, security and sustainable development. Panel Participants are invited to reflect on, and debate the various global partnerships that can promote good resource governance and environmentally sustainable practices in the new oil states, and engage with challenges posed by environmental-related grievances and conflicts, and security-related problems in established oil states like Nigeria, the largest oil-producing country in the region.
Drawing on case studies, comparative studies from other regions in the continent, the role of non-state actors, and regional and inter-disciplinary perspectives, the panel will examine the (actual and potential) impact of the oil/energy sector—and its environmental consequences, how to avoid the ‘oil curse’ and define priorities and partnerships that facilitate the use oil for the benefit of the people based on environmental justice, conflict resolution and sustainable development.
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Accepted Abstracts
SESSION 1
Theorizing Resource Rights
The Quest for Environmental Justice in Nigeria’s Oil Region: What Ramifications for West Africa’s Emerging Oil States?
Partnership for Environmental Justice in the Niger Delta: The Actors, the Options, Possibilities and Limitations
Converging Stresses: Ecology, Power and Conflict in West Africa’s Oil-Rich Context
Rethinking Security in the Niger Delta
Governance and Security in Petro-business: Reflections on the Dichotomy between Politico-economic and Environmental Sustainability in Nigeria
SESSION 2
Avoiding the Social and Environmental Governance Deficit Time-bomb by Newly Emergent Petro-States in West Africa: Lessons from Nigeria
The Pitfalls of National Content: Oil and Development in Angola and Nigeria
US Energy Security and Nigerian Oil: From International to ‘Contingency Cooperation’?
Local Content and Petroleum Development: Beyond the Techno-economic Promise
Beyond Public Relations? Transparency Initiatives and the Challenges of Resource Governance in Nigeria
