McLeod Group Blog, April 1, 2015
On March 15, 2015, the armies of Chad and Niger drove Boko Haram out of the Nigerian town of Damasak where it had been wreaking havoc for more than five months. The Nigerian military, one of the largest in Africa, was not part of the operation and was nowhere to be seen.
Long ago, in answer to a question about possible Canadian support for eastern Nigeria’s secessionist Biafra, Prime Minister Trudeau replied, ‘Where’s Biafra?’ One ...
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McLeod Group Blog, March 26, 2015
What’s the first best weapon to combat terrorism?
Good jobs-lots of them.
What’s the second best weapon?
Knowledge: continuous, detailed analysis of the complex root causes of radicalization and terrorism that informs the fullest range of actions by governments.
Yes, we admit here to ‘committing sociology’ (an idiotic phrase if there ever was one). For the record, we also regularly commit anthropology, and political science, and economics, and community development, and, especially, gender analysis.
It could be that truly ...
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