Ebook: Oil and insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the complex politics of petroviolence

About the editors
Cyril Obi is a senior researcher, and leader, Research Cluster on Conflict, Displacement and Transformation, at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. He has been on leave since 2005 from the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos, where he is an associate research professor. In 2004, Dr Obi became the second Claude Ake Visiting Professor at the University of Uppsala. He is the recipient of the following international recognition/awards: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Governance Institute Fellow in 1993; fellow of the Salzburg Seminar 1994; SSRC-MacArthur Foundation visiting fellow in 1996; visiting fellow to the Africa Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden; and visiting fellow and senior research associate, St Antony's College, Oxford, from October 1999 to March 2000. In 2001, he was a fellow of the 21st Century Trust conference on ‘Rethinking security for the 21st century', also held at Oxford. He is a contributing editor to the Review of African Political Economy, and is on the editorial board of the African Journal of International Affairs, the African Security Review and the Review of Leadership in Africa. Dr Obi has been a guest editor of journals such as African and Asian Studies and the African Journal of International Affairs. His most recent book, co-edited with Fantu Cheru, is The Rise of China and India in Africa (Zed Books, 2010).
Siri Aas Rustad is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Her research is mainly concerned with post-conflict natural resource management, with a particular focus on Nigeria. Other research interests include the role of natural resources in conflict and the geography of conflict.