Dr Emeka Thaddues Njoku

International Development Department
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email: e.t.njoku@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @EmekaTN

Address: School of Government
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Emeka Thaddues Njoku's research focuses on global counter-terrorism norms and their impact on the spaces and agency of civil society organizations, as well as the gendered and sexual consequences of counter-terrorism laws, policies, and practices.

His research has received funding from the British Academy, UK; American Council of Learned Societies, USA; Social Science Research Council, USA; Brown International Advanced Research Institute fellowship, Brown University, USA; Carnegie Funds for Conference Attendance, Institute of International Education, USA; American Political Science Association, USA; The Centennial Centre for Political Science and Public Affairs of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, USA; Makarere Institute of Social Research, Uganda; and the University of Ibadan Postgraduate College, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Njoku's research has been published in International Affairs, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organisations, and Development Policy Review, to mention but a few. His co-authored book (with Scott N. Romaniuk), titled "Counter-terrorism and Civil Society: Post-9/11 Progress and Challenges," was published by Manchester University Press.

ORC Profile

Qualifications

PhD in Political Science 2019, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
MSc in Political Science, University of Ibadan, 2010
BSc (Hons) in Political Science, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, 2005

Research

Research interests

Civil Society, Development, Conflict, Gender-based violence, Security, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism

Current projects

De-Risking Policy: Terrorism Financing and the Securitization of Muslim Charities in the United Kingdom and Nigeria
Masculinity, Male Bodies and Victimhood in the Context of Counter-Terrorism in North-eastern Nigeria
Rethinking “Victimhood”: Counter-Terrorism, Sexual Violence and Peacebuilding Efforts of Humanitarian Workers in North-eastern Nigeria
Civil Society Organisations And Counter-Terrorism In North-eastern Nigeria

Other activities

Country Expert

Varieties of Democracy Project
V-Dem Institute
Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg
Sprängkullsgatan, Gothenburg Sweden

Contributing Analyst

(Terrorism and Counter-terrorism)
Wikistrat, Inc.
Washington DC, United States.

Publications

Book (edited Volume)

Romaniuk, S. N. and Njoku, E.T (2021) Counter-Terrorism and Civil Society Organisations: Post-9/11 Progress and Challenges. Manchester: Manchester University Press

Articles

Njoku, E.T., & Dery, I. (2023). Gendering Counter-Terrorism: Kunya and the Silencing of Male Victims of CRSV in Northeastern Nigeria. African Studies Review, 1-18. doi:10.1017/asr.2023.27

Njoku, E.T (2022) Strategic exclusion, co-option and containment: towards an integrative theory of state-CSOs relations, Critical Studies on Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2022.2111776

Njoku, E.T, Akintayo, J. & Mohammed, I. (2022) Sex trafficking and sex-for-food/money: terrorism and conflict-related sexual violence against men in the Lake Chad region, Conflict, Security & Development, 22:1, 79-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2022.2034369

Njoku, E.T (2022) Queering Terrorism, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2021.2016514

Adebayo, K. O., & Njoku, E. T. (2022). Local and Transnational Identity, Positionality and Knowledge Production in Africa and the African Diaspora. Field Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X211051574

Njoku, E.T and Dery, I (2021) Spiritual security: an explanatory framework for conflict-related sexual violence against men, International Affairs, Volume 97, Issue 6, November 2021, Pages 1785–1803, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab175

Njoku, E.T (2021) The state of terrorism research in Africa, Critical Studies on Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2021.1983113

Njoku, E.T & Akintayo, J (2021) Sex for survival: Terrorism, poverty and sexual violence in north-eastern Nigeria, South African Journal of International Affairs, 28:2, 285-303

Njoku, E.T (2021) The State and the Securitization of Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640211003256

Njoku, E.T (2021) Strategic Exclusion: The State and the Framing of a Service-Delivery Role for Civil Society Organisations in the Context of Counter-Terrorism in Nigeria, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 44:(5):410-430

Njoku, E.T (2020) The Merchants of Terror: Neo-patrimonialism, Counter-Terrorism Economy and the Expansion of Terrorism in Nigeria, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 10, (2): 83-107

Njoku, E.T (2020) Politics of Conviviality? State-Civil Society Relations with the Context of Counter-terrorism in Nigeria, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organisations 31, (5): 1063–1076

Njoku, E.T (2020) Making Sense of State Service-Delivery Oriented Partnership with Civil Society Organisations in Counter-Terrorism Context in Nigeria, Development Policy Review, 00:1–16, https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12524

Njoku, E.T (2020) Investigating the Intersections between Counterterrorism and NGOs in Nigeria: Development Practice in Conflict-affected Areas, Development in Practice, 30 (4): 501-512

Njoku, E.T (2019) The ligaments of counter-terrorism regime: sexual violence and the vicarious traumatisation of female non-governmental organisation workers: evidence from Nigeria, Small Wars & Insurgencies, 30:6-7, 1233-1263, DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2019.1649830

Book Chapters

Romaniuk, S. N. and Njoku, E.T (2019) 'Speaking Identity: Security Policy and US Foreign Policy' in Romaniuk, S. N. & Grice, F. (eds.), The Future of US Warfare. Abingdon, UK: Routledge

Njoku, E.T (2017) 'Assimilating the Intersections between Counter-terrorism and Civil Society Organisations through the Prism of Mixed-Methods Design.' Sage Research Method Cases: Politics and International Relations, London: Sage Publications

Njoku, E.T (2017) 'Laws for Sale:’ The Domestication of Counterterrorism Legislations and its impact in Nigeria,” in Romaniuk, S. N., Grice, F., Irrera, F. & Webb, S. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Counterterrorism Policy. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Alice Martini and Njoku, E.T (2017) 'The Challenges of Defining Terrorism for Counter-Terrorism Policy' (with Martini, A.) in Romaniuk, S. N., Grice, F., Irrera, F. & Webb, S. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Counterterrorism Policy. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan

Adebayo, K and Njoku, E.T (2016) 'The Practice of Democracy and Public Sphere in Nigeria: The Context and Contribution of Nigerian Diaspora' (with Adebayo, K.) in Romaniuk, S. & Marlin, M. (eds.), Democracy and Civil Society in Global Era. Abingdon, UK: Routledge

Emordi, A. and Njoku, E.T (2015) 'Gender Conjecture and the Politics of Land Deprivation in South Eastern Nigeria' in Romaniuk, S. N. & Marlin, M. (eds.), Development and the Politics Human Rights. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press

Njoku, E.T (2015) 'An Assessment of the United Nations Counterterrorism Initiatives: 2001-2015,' in Romaniuk, S. N. & Webb, S. T. (eds.), Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Modern War. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press

Book Reviews

Njoku, E.T (2017) The al-Qaeda Franchise: The Expansion of al-Qaeda and its Consequences” Political Studies Review Vol. 15, Issue

Njoku, E.T (2016) Eat the Heart of the Infidel”: The Harrowing of Nigeria and the Rise of Boko Haram” Political Studies Review Vol. 15, Issue 3, pp. 505-50

Njoku, E.T (2016) Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group” Political Studies Review Vol. 15, Issue 4

Njoku, E.T (2016) Misunderstanding Terrorism” Political Studies Review Vol. 16 Issue 4

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