Staff

Dr Oyewole Oginni

Dr Oyewole Oginni

Senior Researcher


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01607956890

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017677413325

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oyewole.oginni(at)bicc.de

Expertise

Research Profile


I am interested in the societal impacts of armed conflicts, security politics and reforms in countries/regions battling with the scene of continuous violent conflicts. I often combine ethnographic approach with other social empirical methods to understand conflict dynamics and system, civilian interaction with NSAGs and the state’s tactical and strategic approaches to a complex security landscape. In my current role at BICC, I collaborate with regional and multilateral actors (AU, UN-DPO, LCBC) and local research institutions to understand and provide concrete policy recommendations on how regional approaches to dealing with armed conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin region shapes systems of conflict/peace and how NSAGs contribute this system or are affected by them. 

Research Topics / Key Expertise


Civil-military interaction.  

Armed conflicts and food security.  

Forced migration,  

Peace processes & DDR.  

Development cooperation  

Governance  

Politics of interventions  

Application of Machine Learning in program evaluation 

Countries Of Expertise


  • Nigeria,
  • Cameroon,
  • Chad,
  • Niger,
  • Mali,
  • Burkina Faso,
  • Liberia,
  • Sudan,
  • Sierra Leone,
  • Cape Verde

Professional Career

Before joining bicc’s projects on regional approaches to dealing with Armed Groups in the Sahel, Oyewole was a junior researcher at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn. His PhD dissertation addressed the issue of civilian loyalty and agency in insecure spaces of the LCB region. In the past eight years, Oyewole has worked as a principal investigator/researcher on different EU-funded projects dealing with an early recovery and transition from armed conflicts, women and peacebuilding, and more recently, as a Forced Migration Specialist at UNOPS. Between 2017 and 2022, he served as a technical advisor and expert on Africa-EU partnership projects on peace and security. His unique experience in this role includes the design and evaluation of call for proposals, monitoring of partners’ projects, round-table meetings with the Head of States, EU and African Parliamentarians, funding agencies and multilateral actors on promotion of local ownership in development cooperation in crisis region.  

Important Publications

Journal article

Oginni, O.

Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hedging Loyalties in (Un)Governed Space of the Lake Chad Basin

(2023)

Open
Journal article

Oginni, O.

Return to normalcy: Transition and futures in insecure spaces

(2023)

Open

Publications

bicc Policy brief

Berks, M., & Oginni, O., & Breitung, C., & Alhassan, M., & Tondandi, A.

Une entreprise risquée : engager des groupes d'autodéfense dans le bassin du lac Tchad

bicc , Bonn (2024)

Open
bicc Policy brief

Oginni, O.

Comment empêcher le banditisme djihadiste de devenir la nouvelle norme dans le bassin du lac Tchad

bicc , Bonn (2024)

Open
bicc Policy brief

Berks, M., & Oginni, O., & Breitung, C., & Alhassan, M., & Tondandi, A.

Risky Business: Engaging Vigilante Groups in the Lake Chad Basin

bicc , Bonn (2024)

Open
bicc Policy brief

Oginni, O.

How to Stop ´Jihadi Banditry´from Becoming the New Normal in the Lake Chad Basin

bicc , Bonn (2024)

Open

Journal article

Oginni, O.

Return to normalcy: Transition and futures in insecure spaces

(2023)

Open
bicc Policy brief

Breitung, C., & Berks, M., & Haidara, B., & Oginni, O.

Coup in Niger: Why Military Interventions are Doomed to Fail

bicc , Bonn (2023)

Open
Journal article

Oginni, O.

Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hedging Loyalties in (Un)Governed Space of the Lake Chad Basin

(2023)

Open