| dc.description | The birth of the Legislative Journal of Security Analysis (LJSA) is a timely effort and a welcome approach to discharging the Centre’s mandate of providing local and international scholars the platform for disseminating research output. The Journal which places a high premium on empirical and policy research will serve as a repository for knowledge in security, peace, strategic, and conflict studies. The LJSA’s preference for empirical and policy research sets it apart as an agenda-setting platform for the deepening and strengthening of the security sector in Nigeria and the West African sub-region. This is coming at a time when Nigeria is facing a plethora and worsening insecurity and the West African subregion is challenged by conflict, military coups, insurgency, terrorism, transnational crimes, leadership crisis, and development failures. At this trying time, research output from the journal will provide the necessary empirical data required for security policy while setting the agenda for national, regional, and global security governance.
This maiden edition of the journal lined up several well-researched articles that present findings on thought-provoking issues capturing different aspects of national and international security concerns. These articles not only reflect novel areas of thought on the different problems they set out to address but also the interest of scholars from different institutions and walks of life across the length and breadth of Nigeria. I therefore recommend this journal to members of the security committees in the national, state assemblies and the Local Government Councils, members of the Federal, State, and Local Government Council executives with security portfolios, members of the Armed Forces, the Nigeria Police, Department of State Security, other agencies in the security sector. Others include Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), international development partners, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), the mass media, researchers, and students. | en_US |
