Managing a Crisis, with Dr Jennifer Lofkrantz from the American University of Nigeria
Date/Time: Jan 11 2018, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Vancouver, SFU Vancouver
The Boko Haram insurgency began in earnest in 2009 and reached its height in 2014-2015, when Boko Haram controlled approximately 20 000 square kilometres in the northeastern Nigerian states of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa. While discussing the development and the ideology of the Boko Haram organization, this talk will also focus on the responses to Boko Haram in Yola, capital of Adamawa state, as residents defended the town from members of this organization, housed and fed 300,000 IDPs, and provided education for IDP children after the federal government, military, and NGOs had withdrawn their personnel. It will then discuss the oral history and narrative projects with the women who were former captives of Boko Haram in order to understand their experiences.. The goal of the oral history project is to gather information on a wide-range of topics that shaped the women's experiences in captivity whereas the purpose of the narrative project is to provide a venue for those former captives to tell their own stories.
SFU Vancouver Campus, Room 7000, Harbour Centre.
We would like to respectfully acknowledge that the land this event takes place on is the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
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