02173 a2200337 4500 OB-ifra-1705 FrMaCLE 20251214082643.0 cu ||||||m|||| 210721e||||||||xx |||||s|||||||||0|en|d 979-10-92312-55-3 10.4000/books.ifra.1705 doi FR-FrMaCLE eng Pérouse de Montclos, Marc-Antoine Violence in Nigeria : A qualitative and quantitative analysis / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos. Ibadan : IFRA-Nigeria, 2021. xiv-217 p. Ebook Most of the academic literature on violence in Nigeria is qualitative. It rarely relies on quantitative data because police crime statistics are not reliable, or not available, or not even published. Moreover, the training of Nigerian social scientists often focuses on qualitative, cultural, and political issues. There is thus a need to bridge the qualitative and quantitative approaches of conflict studies. This book represents an innovation and fills a gap in this regard. It is the first to introduce a discussion on such issues in a coherent manner, relying on a database that fills the lacunae in data from the security forces. The authors underline the necessity of a trend analysis to decipher the patterns and the complexity of violence in very different fields: from oil production to cattle breeding, radical Islam to motor accidents, land conflicts to witchcraft, and so on. In addition, they argue for empirical investigation and a complementary approach using both qualitative and quantitative data. The book is therefore organized into two parts, with a focus first on statistical studies, then on fieldwork. CC-BY-SA-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Geography Political Science violence conflicts crime crime statistics quantitative data analysis 978-90-5448-149-2 Pérouse de Montclos, Marc-Antoine https://books.openedition.org/ifra/1705 Violence in Nigeria 6459 6459