Women and Children and the Boko-Haram Insurgency in the Northeast

Abstract

This paper interrogates the consequences of the Boko Haram insurgency on women and children in the Northeast. Anchored on data largely generated from fieldwork surveys and credible secondary sources carefully sampled and synthesize, the authors posit that the insurgency has had more baneful consequences on women and children in the Northeast for at least two basic reasons. First, is the fact that they represent the most vulnerable in the Northeast largely sexist socio-cultural milieu; and secondly, they are usually easy soft targets for claims and counter-claims between disputants in the dynamics of the conflict. On the basis of this, the authors made far reaching policy recommendations on how to ameliorate the dire conditions of women and children in the Northeast as part of conflict mediation strategy and postconflict resolution mechanism.