James Okolie-Osemene PhD
Dr. James Okolie-Osemene is currently a Senior Lecturer and HoD, Department of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Imo State. He received his Ph.D and Master’s degrees in Peace and Conflict Studies from the prestigious premier University, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and Bachelor’s degree (Hons.) in History and International Studies from Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria. He is alumnus of the Pan-African Doctoral Academy, University of Ghana (January 2019), alumnus of Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) Postdoctoral School University of Ghana, Legon (April 2022), and Research Fellow at the French Institute for Research in Africa. Dr. Okolie-Osemene is also a member of many Research Working Groups within and outside Africa, including Nationalism in a Transnational Age, Norway, and the Conflict Research Network West Africa etc. He has over 10 years teaching and professional experience in research and policy analysis in international relations, conflict prevention issues, violence research and capacity building. He is a peer reviewer for some local and international journals including Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being (Canada), African Security (Taylor and Francis, UK), Journal of Peacebuilding & Development (Kennesaw State University USA/Taylor and Francis), UNILAG’s African Journal of Housing and Sustainable Development, among others. His main research interests are among others Global Security, Insurgency/Counterinsurgency, Terrorism, Urban & Rural Crimes, Cross-Border Security, Violence Research, Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, and how state actors and traditional institutions engage with non-state armed groups. He has many publications (local and international peer reviewed scholarly journals, book chapters and books). Dr. Okolie-Osemene is currently completing two books on Global Disarmament Programmes and Interstate Conflicts in Post-Cold War Era. He has supervised more than 30 undergraduate projects and three MSc. Dissertations since 2014.
His recent publications include “Nigeria’s Security Governance Dilemmas during the Covid-19 Crisis,” Politikon Journal (Taylor and Francis, 2021); “New Transnational Pan-Africanism and Its Nationalist Limitations,” in Nationalism in a Transnational Age (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Germany, 2021); “Trans-Saharan Human Trafficking as a Crime Against Humanity: Patterns, Evolution, and Implications for People-Centred Development in Africa,” in The Routledge Handbook of Africana Criminologies (Routledge, 2021) and Political Abuse of Religion, Groupism, Elite Rascality, and Religious Tensions in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic”, Global Humanities 6, 9 (University of Palermo, Italy, 2022).
He is a member of Lagos Studies Association (LSA) and Associate Member of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP). Dr. Okolie-Osemene hosted conference panels on “The Dynamics of Urban and Rural Crimes in Africa” and “The Drivers and Manifestations of Everyday Militarism in Africa” during the international conferences organised by The Lagos Studies Association and The Research Group for the Study of Conflict, Reconstruction and Memory (CRAM) Swansea University in June and July 2022 respectively.
Some of his works have been published by Sage Publications, Taylor and Francis, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Smartline Limited Ghana, Ahmadu Bello University Press Limited, French Institute for Research in Africa, Vsesvit PH Kyiv, John Archers (Publishers), Society for Peace Studies and Practice, IGI Global Pennsylvania, Media Team IT Education Center, Lahnstr, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), Jungpura Extension, New Delhi, India and many others. His work is one of the chapters in the Palgrave Handbook of Global Counterterrorism Policy, 2017. He has presented papers at international scientific conferences in Africa, America, Europe and Middle East. In June 2017, he attended the 17th Mega-Chad Network International Conference on Insecurities in the Lake Chad Basin, organised by Association Mega-Tchad, Cedex, at the Universite–Sophia Antipolis, in Nice, France.
Okolie-Osemene won the Best Masters Project in the IFRA-Nigeria 2012 Grants for Field Research in the Social Science and the Humanities with focus on Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Modelling in Niger Delta; and also won the Nigeria Watch 2014 Grants on Trends of Oil related Deaths in Nigeria. He is happily married. He has received various travel grants from institutions in Nigeria, West Africa, Egypt and Europe.
His recent publications include “Nigeria’s Security Governance Dilemmas during the Covid-19 Crisis,” Politikon Journal (Taylor and Francis, 2021); “New Transnational Pan-Africanism and Its Nationalist Limitations,” in Nationalism in a Transnational Age (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Germany, 2021); “Trans-Saharan Human Trafficking as a Crime Against Humanity: Patterns, Evolution, and Implications for People-Centred Development in Africa,” in The Routledge Handbook of Africana Criminologies (Routledge, 2021) and Political Abuse of Religion, Groupism, Elite Rascality, and Religious Tensions in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic”, Global Humanities 6, 9 (University of Palermo, Italy, 2022).
He is a member of Lagos Studies Association (LSA) and Associate Member of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP). Dr. Okolie-Osemene hosted conference panels on “The Dynamics of Urban and Rural Crimes in Africa” and “The Drivers and Manifestations of Everyday Militarism in Africa” during the international conferences organised by The Lagos Studies Association and The Research Group for the Study of Conflict, Reconstruction and Memory (CRAM) Swansea University in June and July 2022 respectively.
Some of his works have been published by Sage Publications, Taylor and Francis, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Smartline Limited Ghana, Ahmadu Bello University Press Limited, French Institute for Research in Africa, Vsesvit PH Kyiv, John Archers (Publishers), Society for Peace Studies and Practice, IGI Global Pennsylvania, Media Team IT Education Center, Lahnstr, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), Jungpura Extension, New Delhi, India and many others. His work is one of the chapters in the Palgrave Handbook of Global Counterterrorism Policy, 2017. He has presented papers at international scientific conferences in Africa, America, Europe and Middle East. In June 2017, he attended the 17th Mega-Chad Network International Conference on Insecurities in the Lake Chad Basin, organised by Association Mega-Tchad, Cedex, at the Universite–Sophia Antipolis, in Nice, France.
Okolie-Osemene won the Best Masters Project in the IFRA-Nigeria 2012 Grants for Field Research in the Social Science and the Humanities with focus on Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Modelling in Niger Delta; and also won the Nigeria Watch 2014 Grants on Trends of Oil related Deaths in Nigeria. He is happily married. He has received various travel grants from institutions in Nigeria, West Africa, Egypt and Europe.
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