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Imrana Alhaji Buba

Researcher

Email imranaab@stv.uio.no

Available hours By appointment

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Visiting address Moltke Moes vei 31 Eilert Sundts hus 0851 Oslo

Postal address P.O box 1097 Blindern 0317 OSLO Norway

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Academic interests

Social Resilience, Civilian Agency, Local Peace, Preventing Violent Extremism, Communal Violence, Civil War, Terrorism, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, Sub-Saharan Africa, Post-Conflict Dynamics.

Teaching and Seminars

PECOS4025 – Analytic Perspectives on Peace and Conflict

STV4284 – Conflict and Security in Africa

STV4031 – Field Research for Political Science

STV4030B – Qualitative Data in Political Science

STV2230 – International Security Policy

STV2235 – Conflict and Human Rights in International Politics

STV2220 – International Political Economy

Background

PhD Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway - 2026
MSc Africa and International Development, University of Edinburgh, UK - 2018
BSc Political Science, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria - 2014

Awards

Kenneth Boulding Award Winner (for the best graduate student paper in peace studies presented at the International Studies Association's conference) 2026
Cedric Smith Prize Winner (for the best piece of peace and conflict research by a PhD candidate awarded by the Conflict Research Society 2024
Edinburgh Award for Transformative Leadership 2018
Outstanding Alumni Award, University of Maiduguri 2018
MasterCard Foundation Scholarship, University of Edinburgh 2017
Best Graduating Student, University of Maiduguri 2014

Tags: Conflict, Civil War, Civilian Agency, Terrorism, Resilience, Peace, Africa, Nigeria, Qualitative Methods

Publications

Academic Articles/Reports

Buba, I. (2026) Civilian Compliance and Victimization in the Boko Haram Insurgency. Journal of Peace Research.
Medie, P.A. Jose, B. Bell-Martin, R. Marston, J. Buba, I. Gray, F. & Rhoads, E. F. (2026) Civilian Self-Protection in Theory and Practice. International Studies Review.
Buba, I. & Krause, J. (2026) Civilian Militia Formation and Protection Against Rebel Violence: Evidence from Nigeria. Political Geography.
Dedios-Sanguineti, M. C. Buitrago-Rubiano, F. González-Gort, M. Buba, I. Ihring, D. Stewart, C. & Fabbri, C. (2026) Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the WHO-5 Well-being Index in Conflict-Affected Humanitarian Contexts. Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health.
Buba, I. (2023) Civilian Protection Payment and the Escalation of Violence against Civilians in Northwestern Nigeria. Global Studies Quarterly.
Buba, I. (2018) Aid, Intervention, and Neocolonial ‘Development’ in Africa. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
Cox, A; Nozell, M & Buba, I. A (2017) “Implementing UNSCR 2250: Youth and Religious Actors Engaging for Peace”. Special Report. United States Institute of Peace (USIP).

Book Reviews

Buba, I. (2024) A Closer Look at Civilian Protection: A Comparative Review of Two Paradigmatic Works. International Peacekeeping.
Buba, I. (2024) Out of Sight: Northeast Nigeria’s Humanitarian Crisis by Jacob Kurtzer. African Studies Review.
Buba, I. (2024) Using Force to Protect Civilians: Successes and Failures of United Nations Peace Operations in Africa [Book Review]. International Affairs.
Buba, I. (2023) Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique [Book Review]. International Affairs.
Buba, I. (2023) Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique [Book Review]. International Studies Review.
Buba, I. A (2021) Unmasking Boko Haram: Exploring Global Jihad in Nigeria by Jacob Zenn [Book Review]. South African Journal of International Affairs.
Buba, I. A (2020) Decolonising Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique by Meera Sabaratnam [Book Review]. Progress in Development Studies.

Op-eds/Short Essays

Buba, I. (2024) The drug menace in the heartland of the Boko Haram insurgency. African Arguments.
Buba, I. (2023) Bandits in Nigeria: how protection payments to militias escalate conflict in the north-west. The Conversation.
Krause, J. & Buba, I. (2023) Security in Nigeria: Bola Tinubu will increase tension in some parts of the country and reduce it in others. The Conversation.
Buba, I. (2023) How Nigeria avoided organised violence during the 2023 elections. African Arguments.
Buba, I. (2023) Lost Childhoods: the Devastating Impact of the Boko Haram War on Nigerian Children. Shuddhashar Freevoice.
Buba, I. (2023) Nigeria, it’s time to strengthen security engagements at local level. Neptune Prime.

Published Sep. 28, 2021 11:48 AM - Last modified Sep. 3, 2026 10:08 AM

Projects

Social Resilience, Gendered Dynamics, and Local Peace in Protracted Conflicts (ResilienceBuilding)