Grade 12 AP World Issues GeoPolitical Conflict Presentation

1. BOKO HARAMA GEOPOLITICAL CONFLICT

2. Boko HaramBoko
‘Western Education’
‘Ilimin boko’
Forbidden, sinful
Opposite of Halal
Haram

3. WHO IS BOKO HARAM?
An Islamic
extremist group
Group of the
People of Sunnah
for Preaching and
Jihad
Allegiance
to ISIS

4. The Economist (Jan 2015)
• NORTH-EAST NIGERIA
• NIGER
• CHAD
• NORTH CAMEROON
MAP

5. Vice News (April 2015)
• NORTH-EAST NIGERIA
• NIGER
• CHAD
• NORTH CAMEROON
MAP
• MUSLIMS
• CHRISTIANS
• STATES WITH SHARIA
LAW

6. 20 000
PEOPLE
KILLED
SINCE 2009
2.3
MILLION
DISPLACED
FROM HOME
300
% INCREASE
IN VICTIMS IN
2014
STATISTICS

7. TIMELINE
2009 2013 2015
MILITARY
LAUNCH
TERRORIST
GROUP
2014
CALIPHATE
WORLD’S
DEADLIEST
TERROR
GROUP

8. MUSLIMS
CHRISTIANS
ETHNIC GROUPS

9. CAUSES & FACTORS
(HISTORY)

10. CURRENT/RECENT CONFLICTS
POLICE AND
CHRISTIANS
TARGETED
2015
BAGA
MASSACRE
2014
SCHOOLGIRL
KIDNAPPING
ABDUCTION
OF WOMEN

11. OUR OPINION
(WHO’S RIGHT?)

12. OUR SOLUTIONS

13. THE FUTURE

14. “OUR STRENGTH AND
FIREPOWER IS BIGGER THAN
THAT OF NIGERIA. NIGERIA IS
NO LONGER A BIG DEAL TO US,
AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED.
WE WILL NOW COMFORTABLY
CONFRONT THE USA.”