FAILED STATES PANDEMIC AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NIGERIA AND AFGHANISTAN

📄 Project Abstract

Failed states are important actors in the proliferation of small arms and light weapons globally. According to a Geneva-based survey on small arms (2003), over 640 million such weapons circulate globally, mostly among private hands and for illicit purposes. Countries ravaged by violent conflict are also believed to engender regional instability because with porous borders it becomes difficult to contain humanitarian emergencies or violence within the territorial limits of a state. A spill over of instability is a natural corollary of conflict in failed states, and ends up destabilizing neighbouring countries and regions at large. As governance and political structures weaken and decay in these states, their territorial borders become permeable; thereby causing a huge outflow of refugees into neighbouring areas thereby constitute nuisance and most cases aid terrorism. Terrorism finds sanctuary in failed states as a result of their inability to quell criminal activities and provision of ...