Academic Module: Nigeria: Elections and Continuing Challenges
Author: Robert I. Rotberg
December 2007
This module features teaching notes by World Peace Foundation president Robert I. Rotberg, author of Nigeria: Elections and Continuing Challenges, along with other resources to supplement the text. In the report, Rotberg describes what steps might be taken to strengthen democracy in the near-term and to tackle Nigeria's long-term challenges of governance, security, and development.
Publication and Teaching Notes
CFR.org Backgrounders
CFR Books & Reports
Foreign Affairs Articles
Supplementary Readings
Interviews & Podcasts
Testimony
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CFR Meetings (Video, Audio, Transcripts)
Symposium
Religious Conflict in Nigeria: Contemporary Religious Dynamics in Nigeria - Session 2
Speakers:
Father Mathew Kukah, Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna, Nigeria, John N. Paden, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of International Studies, George Mason UniversityPresider:
Timothy Samuel Shah, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Religion and Foreign Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
This meeting is on the record.
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Symposium
Religious Conflict in Nigeria: Religion and the Nigerian Elections - Session 1
Speakers:
Peter M. Lewis, Director of African Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced, Rotimi Suberu, Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program, U.S. Institute of PeacePresider:
Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
This meeting is on the record.
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General Meeting
Islam in Africa
Presider:
Princeton N. Lyman, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow, Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Stephen Ellis, Senior Researcher, Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden University, Co-author, Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa, Jeffrey Tayler, Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly, Author, Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel, Sulayman Nyang, Professor, Africa Studies, Howard University
This meeting is not for attribution.
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General Meeting
A Conversation with Olusegun Obasanjo
Presider:
Princeton N. Lyman, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow in Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Olusegun Obasanjo, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria
This meeting is not for attribution.