{"title":"Communal tracking approach to insecurity in Nigeria: A prognostic contemplation on Amotekun, the Nigerian Southwest Security Outfit","authors":"E. Agbaje, Adebowale Idowu Adeyeye, O. Omodunbi","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.53-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.53-04","url":null,"abstract":"Crime proliferation and insecurity represent a multidirectional broadband in social analysis. Crimes generally are outcome of carefully planned and diligently executed mischief of a belligerent group against a target. Crimes are rarely capable of sudden self-propagation. Indexes of insecurity and interest-based assaults of one group against another in the form of terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and communal/ethnic attacks scarcely manifest as entirely externallyinflicted social ills without insiders’ collaboration. Terrorism, banditry and kidnapping as crimes, are at the same time living social organisms that are birthed, nurtured and resourced for attainment of some strategic social objectives. The advanced phase of armed attack manifests only at their maturity. Based on available primary and secondary data on security challenges, aside from Approach (CTA) to security stands the best strategy for early detection, avoidance and/or prevention of crimes. This paper recommends that if the objective of the new complementa-ry security organization in the Nigerian Southwest, codenamed Amotekun , is to be realized, it must be built more on CTA. Given that Amotekun is not likely to be as resourced as the Nigerian military, and particularly with the everincreasing proliferation of arms among the belligerent elements, CTA, with its communal stance, above all alternate measures, offers a less costly strategy to securing the citizens and the nation.","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68011824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concepts of security from a perspective of political science","authors":"Ozan Tuncer","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.53-09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.53-09","url":null,"abstract":"Security is one of the most basic needs of human beings and has become one of the fundamental issues not only for people but also for the states. Security has emerged within the human history and it is one of the fundamental concepts of the discipline of international relations. Many studies have been carried out into the concept of security in the discipline of international relations and many definitions of this concept have been offered in the conceptual and theoretical framework of these studies. However, in the literature there is no one, commonly accepted definition of security. Since security has a dynamic structure, the concept of security has also changed cyclically and maintained its existence. Unique opportunities for the concept of security emerged particularly during and after the cold war, arousing interest of many disciplines and theorists. The concept of security, which continues its existence today, has changed and deepened, confronted with different threats. In our study, firstly, the concept of security will be defined and its analysis will be perfor-med by associating it with humanity and its history. Afterwards, it will be explained how the change in the system transformed the concept of security as conceived in terms of the critical theories developed in the cold war period and later. epistemology of the concept of security is examined and the concept is defined. Afterwards, it was investigated whether the concept of security was affected by the events in the historical process. This analyzis was undertaken through the main dimensions of security perception. In the second part of the article the perception of security in the course of time has been investigated in more detail. This study has been handled dynami-cally and evolutionarily so as to shed light on the historical process from the first humans to the present day regarding the concept of security. For this purpose, the epistemology of the concept of security was conceptually added to the analyses as well.","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68012918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformation of Estonia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Historical determinants and comparative analysis of effects","authors":"K. Kaczmarek","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.54-01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.54-01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68013132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Media and Political Participation among Youth in South-Eastern Nigeria: A Case Study of 2015 and 2019 General Elections","authors":"Abdulrasheed Abdulyakeen, Y. Yusuf","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.54-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.54-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68014385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tunde Agara, Usamotu Basheer Olalere, Young Kenneth Irhue
{"title":"Defending the Homeland: A Critical Assessment of Government’s Response to the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria","authors":"Tunde Agara, Usamotu Basheer Olalere, Young Kenneth Irhue","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.54-03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.54-03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68013195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of the COVID-19 sanitary restrictions on the operation of the cultural institutions in Poland","authors":"Jarosław Jurkiewicz","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.53-07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.53-07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68013202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. O. Lawal, T. Akintunde, Nkechi Latifat Aliu, Young Kenneth Irhue, O. Akinrinde, Oluwagbemiga Oluwaseun Ajayi
{"title":"Urban realities and politics of Owanbe in Nigeria","authors":"M. O. Lawal, T. Akintunde, Nkechi Latifat Aliu, Young Kenneth Irhue, O. Akinrinde, Oluwagbemiga Oluwaseun Ajayi","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.53-05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.53-05","url":null,"abstract":"This study has been motivated by the diverse and stimulating dimension of urban life, most especially by the unending flair for social festivities, popularly known as Owanbe . While giving its attention to Lagos City in Nigeria, this study strove to contribute to the existing discourse on urban life and its realities. It documents the pattern and dimension of social festivities, the socio-demographic characteristics of the conveners/organizers, the ideological motives behind the unending spate of lavish ceremonies, the factors sustaining these ceremonies, the sources of financing the ceremonies in the face of prevailing precarious economic condition, as well as the developmental implications and the emerging mani festations of these ceremonies. As a participatory research that took place in 5 randomly sampled Local Government Areas in Lagos State between March 2020 and January 2021, the study sourced data using the In- Depth Interview (IDI), Key Informant Interview (KII), and Focus Group Discussions (FGD). The participants were the stakeholders and opinion leaders within the study areas. The collected data were content analyzed and reported with humanistic approach. The study has discovered that urban dynamics created inequalities and harsh economic conditions. The reality of the inevitability of this situation gave promi-nence to unconventional leisure and recreation events called Owanbe gatherings. The pattern and dimension of such festivities ranged from birthdays, child naming, burial rites, to chieftaincy ceremonies, and so on. The study concludes that ostentatious spending involved in Owanbe ceremonies encourages disinvestment through the diversion of funds that would have stimulated sustainable economic growth.","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68012049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Internet’s influence on the way of communication between politicians and their electorate","authors":"D. Borowska, Nikola Rozworska","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.53-06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.53-06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68012935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ukraine’s Balance Policy between European Union and Russia","authors":"Ozan Tuncer, Fatma Nur Erkut","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.54-07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.54-07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68013394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Irabor, Samuel Iheanacho Ebirim, Idowu Folorunso Aloba
{"title":"Local Government and Primary Health Care service delivery in South-Western Nigeria 2010–2015","authors":"P. Irabor, Samuel Iheanacho Ebirim, Idowu Folorunso Aloba","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.54-08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.54-08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68013421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}