{"id":161,"date":"2012-01-12T19:27:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T00:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2012-01-12T19:28:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T00:28:39","slug":"re-boko-haram-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/12\/re-boko-haram-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Boko Haram in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two recent perspectives on the increasing Boko Haram-related violence in northern Nigeria:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>The Economist<\/em> (Jan. 14 2012 issue): <a title=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21542764\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21542764\">http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21542764<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol>\n<li>an Op-Ed that I co-authored (Jan. 12 2012): <a title=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2012\/0112\/Nigeria-s-Boko-Haram-attacks-are-misunderstood-as-regional-Islamist-threat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2012\/0112\/Nigeria-s-Boko-Haram-attacks-are-misunderstood-as-regional-Islamist-threat\">http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2012\/0112\/Nigeria-s-Boko-Haram-attacks-are-misunderstood-as-regional-Islamist-threat<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also just completed a monograph on Boko Haram, for Joint Special Operations University Press, currently under final review. Quite a terrorism hotspot these days . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two recent perspectives on the increasing Boko Haram-related violence in northern Nigeria: The Economist (Jan. 14 2012 issue): http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21542764 an Op-Ed that I co-authored (Jan. 12 2012): http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2012\/0112\/Nigeria-s-Boko-Haram-attacks-are-misunderstood-as-regional-Islamist-threat I&#8217;ve also just completed a monograph on Boko Haram, for Joint Special Operations University Press, currently under final review. Quite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/12\/re-boko-haram-in-nigeria\/\" class=\"btn btn-link continue-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorist-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}