The research project “Boko Haram, Islamic Protest, and National Security” highlights one of the most serious problems of the contemporary world order - ideologically and religious motivated violence.

The SSHRC funded project, Islamic Protest, Terrorism and Security in Africa, began in 2018 through the collaborative efforts of a number of researchers at different institutions across Africa and North America. This was to be a collaboration to tackle the important issue affecting Northeast Nigeria, the countries surrounding Lake Chad, and West Africa more generally arising from Boko Haram attacks on civilian populations.

In 2018, the project was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council through a Partnership Development Grant. Since then, the project has created online networks and databases of research information and held international meetings to discuss developments. IPTSA has thereby brought stakeholders, researchers and students together, in developing websites and online forums for sharing information.

The Digital Humanities dimension of the IPTSA project seeks to document and archive materials of relevance, including videos, documents, newspaper accounts and online data so that scholars, students and the public have access to as much information as possible. The research focuses on i) Technology, media, and war ii) Public health and national development iii) Displacement, traditional institutions and Restorative Justice iv) Education, youth, gender and human rights v) History, jihad and the ideologies of war vi) Economics of war and conflict