Legal Theft: Making Law for Underdevelopment and Conflict - The Problem with Nigeria

Legal Theft studies the intersection of policy, poverty, and peace (PPP). Nigeria is the case study. The book describes how grassroots stakeholders in the Niger Delta oil-related conflicts, oil companies and oil bearing communities, engage the conflict to assure coexistence through the General Memorandum of Association (GMOU). The study shows that the ultimate cause of the conflicts, which had resulted in violence, was the nationalization of natural resources, particularly petroleum oil, be...