Community Resilience Response to Boko Haram Insurgency in Yobe State

The objectives of this study are to study the existing community resilience measures in Yobe State to examine the successes and challenges of the existing community resilience measures in the State and c to provide measures for overcoming these challenges. The study adopts control theory and situational crime prevention theory to explain community resilience to Boko Haram insurgency and its preventive measures in the study area. A body of literature on the subject matter has been consulted. Methodologically, the study will be survey research design and the target populations of the study were male and female community members, political leaders, traditional leaders, security agents, media persons, representatives of NGOs and CSOs. A sample size of 156 respondents was selected using cluster and simple random sampling techniques out of which 150 respondents provided quantitative data and the remaining 6 gave qualitative data. The sources of data were primary questionnaire and secondary and the method of data analysis was mixed method. The finding of the study indicated that the existing community resilience measures in Yobe State include the use of civilian JTF to prevent the re occurrence of the insurgency economic empowerment for the victims of the insurgency, special intervention for IDPs as safety net, and collaboration between the communities and the law enforcements. The successes of the existing community resilience measures in the State include more foreign investors coming into the State, reduction in the number of youths joining Boko Haram, emptying of IDPs' camps, sense of security by the communities, and women and children empowerment in the State. The challenges of existing community resilience measures in the study area include lack of deliberate effort by the government, threats to peace by NGOs, increase in poverty and unemployment in the State, lack of cooperation by security agencies, lack of cooperation by the community members, and lack of community resilience professionalism. The measures for overcoming these challenges are deliberate effort by the government to address the challenges identify NGOs that threaten peace in the State reduction in poverty and unemployment incorporation of all security agencies to end the conflict and emphasis on IDPs. Mohammed Kachalla "Community Resilience: Response to Boko Haram Insurgency in Yobe State" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-2 , April 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/papers/ijtsrd53954.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/53954/community-resilience-response-to-boko-haram-insurgency-in-yobe-state/mohammed-kachalla