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| Directors: | Barnett R. Rubin, New York University Peter M. Lewis |
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| Chair: | Pearl T. Robinson |
January 1, 1996 - March 1, 1999
Nigeria has recently undergone sudden changes in leadership and is now struggling to consolidate the gains from the return to elected government. Nonetheless, ethnic, religious, and regional tensions as well as economic malaise continue to contribute to the potential for conflict. Due to Nigeria’s dominant position in West Africa and its vast oil reserves, an eruption of conflict would have substantial regional and international repercussions.
CPA’s Project on Nigeria concentrates on the role of Nigerian civil society in preventing conflict and pressing for sustainable democratic reform. CPA sent a study mission to Nigeria in January 1997 to evaluate developments in civil society and identify opportunities for partnerships between organizations in the United States and Nigeria. Drawing on both the mission and subsequent meetings, the Nigeria project recently released the third volume of CPA’s Preventive Action Reports, Stabilizing Nigeria: Sanctions, Incentives, and Support for Civil Society (1998).
Publications
September 2007
From Mugabe’s Zimbabwe to conflict in the Horn, Africa has moved off the back burner of U.S. foreign policy. To address the growing importance of this region, the Council on Foreign Relations and Foreign Affairs, the Council’s flagship magazine, present Beyond Humanitarianism, a citizen’s guide to deconstructing the complex issues and conflicts on the African continent and clarifying what’s at stake for the United States in Africa’s future.
December 1999
This report assesses the potential for conflict in Central Asia through the prism of one of its most volatile areas, the Ferghana Valley.
January 1998
To investigate Nigeria and consider various strategies to meet iproblems the country is currently facing, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Center for Preventive Action (CPA) established a working group on Nigeria.
Meetings
Nigeria: A Business Roundtable Discussion
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action Project on Nigeria
| Presider: | Andrew Young |
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Nigeria Business Roundtable
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action Project on Nigeria
| Presider: | Andrew Young |
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Consultation on Nigeria at the Carter Center
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action Project on Nigeria
| Presider: | Harry G. Barnes Jr. |
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| Speakers: | Peter M. Lewis, American University |
| Andrew Young, GoodWorks, Inc. |
Working Group on Nigeria
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action Project on Nigeria
| Presider: | Pearl T. Robinson |
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| Speaker: | Peter M. Lewis |
Nigeria Briefing at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action Project on Nigeria
| Presider: | Pauline H. Baker |
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| Speakers: | John N. Paden, George Mason University |
| Pearl T. Robinson, Tufts University | |
| Peter M. Lewis, American University | |
| Barnett R. Rubin, Council on Foreign Relations |
U.S.-Nigerian Religious Ties
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action Project on Nigeria
| Speaker: | M. William Howard |
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