Dr John Sunday Ojo is a postdoctoral research fellow within the Intelligence in the Global South (GLOBALINT) research group of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. His research focuses on the political economy of armed conflict, concentrating on non-state armed groups, including both jihadist and non-jihadist armed groups operating in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin region. His work also addresses the intelligence culture of state and non-state armed groups, foreign military bases, climate change - resource conflict - terrorism nexus, and African security.
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John Sunday Ojo is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA). He earned his PhD in Politics and Area Studies from the University of Portsmouth and an MA in Global Development from the University of Leeds. He also obtained an MSc in Urban Management and Development focusing on environment, climate change, and sustainability from Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and a BSc in Local Government Studies from Obafemi Awolowo University. His research primarily focuses on the political economy of armed conflict.
Fields of expertise: Environmental policy / climate change
