Prof. Freedom Chukwudi Onuoha is the Coordinator of Security, Violence and Conflict (SVC) Research Group at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He possesses over seventeen years of teaching and research experience, focusing on diverse aspects of national and transnational security threats, with emphasis on organised crime, violent extremism, terrorism, insurgency, maritime security, climate change, violent conflict, and state fragility.
He is also a member of the Folke Bernadotte Academy’s International Research Working Group on Africa. He was a member of the National Working Group that developed Nigeria’s first-ever Policy Framework and National Action Plan for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (2017).
Prof. Onuoha has conducted analysis, policy outreach, and/or fieldwork in multiple countries in sub–Saharan Africa. He has over a decade of expertise in conflict and climate change research, focusing on Northern Nigeria and the Lake Chad region. His work critically examines security dynamics, insurgency, violent extremisms and environmental stressors shaping regional stability. He has also facilitated training programs for state security forces and informal policing groups engaged in counterterrorism and stabilization operations, contributing to policy and practice in security governance in the region. Drawing on his extensive experience in conflict analysis and climate-security dynamics, Prof Onuoha will contribute to the XCEPT Project by examining how climate-induced livelihood crises drive conflicts, insurgency, and extremist recruitment in the Lake Chad region and the Liptako-Gourma area.
