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Exploring the role of political ethnicity on police use of force in Nigeria : a civil society perspective
Thesis (PhD (Political Sciences))--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/89321 Exploring the role of political ethnicity on police use of force in Nigeria : a civil society perspective Wielenga, Cori samuelaigba@gmail.com Theron, Sonja Igba, Samuel Ajogwu UCTD Statebuilding Police use of force Political ethnicity Human rights Nigeria Thesis (PhD (Political Sciences))--University of Pretoria, 2022. The discussion on policing in multicultural societies is embedded within a wider context of political responses to diversity in state-building. Historically, nations were characteristically formed based on common ancestry, religion, and language, but today’s modern nation-state attempts to transcend these antiquated characteristics of a nation by bringing together increasingly diverse people. Policing multiethnic societies, like other sectors of governance, presents unique challenges for the state, including the need to appear impartial towards all citizens regardless of individual ethnicities. This is so because there is a tendency, in multiethnic societies such as Nigeria, which is the interest of this thesis, to experience the phenomenon called political ethnicity which is, according to Claude Ake, the politicization and transformation of ethnic exclusivity into major political cleavages. Using a qualitative research methodology of semi-structured interviews with members of Civil Society Organizations working in the area of police use of force in Nigeria, the research sought to understand police officers’ attitudes towards those against whom they use force. The data was analyzed critically and findings suggest that political ethnicity exists as a structural challenge, and consequently in force users attitudes towards those they use force against. It is observed that political ethnicity in structural and operational processes presented the opportunity for political ethnicity to fester. Political ethnicity manifests in police administration: recruitment, the appointment of heads of security forces, and mounting roadblocks in specific locations that seemingly target specific ethnic groups. It is displayed through ethnic profiling, ethnic bias, and ethnic politics. University of Pretoria, Centre for Mediation in Africa Political Sciences PhD (Political Sciences) Unrestricted 2023-02-08T09:10:30Z 2023-02-08T09:10:30Z 2023-04-20 2022 Thesis * A2023 https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89321 10.25403/UPresearchdata.21983075 en © 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Statebuilding Police use of force Political ethnicity Human rights Nigeria Exploring the role of political ethnicity on police use of force in Nigeria : a civil society perspective |
| title | Exploring the role of political ethnicity on police use of force in Nigeria : a civil society perspective |
| title_full | Exploring the role of political ethnicity on police use of force in Nigeria : a civil society perspective |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the role of political ethnicity on police use of force in Nigeria : a civil society perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the role of political ethnicity on police use of force in Nigeria : a civil society perspective |
| title_short | Exploring the role of political ethnicity on police use of force in Nigeria : a civil society perspective |
| title_sort | exploring the role of political ethnicity on police use of force in nigeria a civil society perspective |
| topic | UCTD Statebuilding Police use of force Political ethnicity Human rights Nigeria |
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