Imrana Alhaji Buba is a PhD researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. His research is on the dynamics of political violence in Nigeria and is part of the ResilienceBuilding Project funded by the European Research Council’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program (852816). Before starting the PhD, Imrana founded the Youth Coalition Against Terrorism (YOCAT), a volunteer-based youth organization working to unite youth against violent extremism in northern Nigeria. He received the 2016 Queen’s Young Leaders Award from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the 2017 JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World Award for promoting a culture of peace in Nigeria.
Super Camps and military vigilance in the North, and Peter Obi’s candidature in the southeast quelled much potential violence. In the 2015 presidential elections, Muhammadu Buhari, ...