@incollection{,
	
					
					
					731BB4FC105998B4F99A136CD476FBF7
				,
	author={{}},
	journal={{}},
	journal={{}},
	address={Cambridge, United States},
	publisher={Great Britain Journals Press Organisation}
}

@book{b0,
	
	
		,
	title={{Ekiti to Build Police Post in Kidnapping Hotspots}}
		,
	author={{
			OAbisoye
		}}
		
		
			,
	year={2019. 10 M arch 2022}
		
	
	,
	note={Independent Newspaper}

}

@incollection{b1,
	
	
		,
	title={{Amotekun kills two suspected kidnappers in Oyo}}
		,
	author={{
			MAdebayo
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Daily Post Newspaper}}
		
			,
	year={2021. 16 March, 2022}
		
	

}

@incollection{b2,
	
	
		,
	title={{An Examination of Amotekun as Panacea to the Problem of Insecurity in Yoruba Land}}
		,
	author={{
			MAAdetunmbi
		} and {
			FAAdedigba
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Reviews}}
		
			11
			1
			
			,
	year={2021}
		
	

}

@incollection{b3,
	
	
		,
	title={{Amotekun: So Far So Good?}}
		,
	author={{
			AAdeyemo
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Nigerian Tribune Newspaper}}
		
			,
	year={2021. 20 March, 2022}
		
	

}

@book{b4,
	
	
		,
	title={{Origins of Hybrid Governance and Armed Community Mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa}}
		,
	author={{
			DEAgbiboa
		}}
		
			,
	year={2019}
		
	
	,
	note={Resolve Network}

}

@incollection{b5,
	
	
		,
	title={{State Policing and Police Efficiency in Nigeria}}
		,
	author={{
			DEAgwanwo
		}}
	
	
		,
	journal={{Research on Humanities and Social Sciences}}
		
			4
			25
			1
			,
	year={2014}
		
	

}

@incollection{b6,
	
	
		,
	title={{Locals Conniving with Foreigners to Kidnap People in Ekiti}}
		,
	author={{
			YAyeleso
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Nigerian Tribune Newspaper}}
		
			,
	year={2022. 10 September 2022}
		
	

}

@book{b7,
	
	
		,
	title={{Nigeria: Voice of the Poor}}
		,
	author={{
			GAyoola
		} and {
			MTaylor
		}}
		
		
			,
	year={2019}
		
	
	,
	note={World Development Report Consultation with the poor}

}

@book{b8,
	
	
		,
	title={{Rethinking Security Initiatives in Nigeria}}
		,
	author={{
			BABadejo
		}}
		
			,
	year={2020}
			,
	publisher={Lagos}
		
	
	,
	note={Published by Yintab Books}

}

@incollection{b9,
	
	
		,
	title={{The Civilian Joint Task Force and the Struggle against Insurgency in Borno State}}
		,
	author={{
			SBamidele
		}}
	
	
		,
	journal={{African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review}}
		
			7
			2
			
			,
	year={2017}
			,
	address={Nigeria}
		
	

}

@incollection{b10,
	
	
		,
	title={{Promoting Virulent Envy: Reconsidering the UK's Terrorist Prevention Strategy}}
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	author={{
			YBirt
		}}
	
	
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	journal={{RUSI Journal}}
		
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			4
			
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	year={2009}
		
	

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@incollection{b11,
	
	
		,
	title={{Vigilante Groups and Policing in a Democratizing Nigeria: Navigating the Context and Issues}}
		,
	author={{
			ASBasiru
		} and {
			AOOsunkoya
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Brazilian Journal of African Studies}}
		
			4
			8
			
			,
	year={2019}
		
	

}

@book{b12,
	
	
		,
	author={{
			BBuzan
		}}
		,
	title={{People, States and Fear: An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War}}
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	author={{
			BBuzan
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			OWaever
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		,
	title={{Regions and Powers the Structure of International Security}}
		
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	publisher={Cambridge University Press}
			,
	year={2003}
		
	

}

@incollection{b14,
	
	
		,
	title={{Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette: Published by the Federal Government of Nigeria}}
	
	
		,
	booktitle={{Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria}}
		
			,
	year={1999}
		
	

}

@incollection{b15,
	
	
		,
	title={{Joint Operation: Amotekun Rescues 11 Kidnap Victims}}
		,
	author={{
			HGbadamosi
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{London Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences Osun. Nigerian Tribune Newspaper}}
		
			,
	year={2021. April 2022}
		
	

}

@incollection{b16,
	
	
		,
	title={{The New Regionalism: A Prologue}}
		,
	author={{
			BHettne
		}}
	
	
		,
	booktitle={{The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development}}
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	editor={
			BHettne
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	publisher={Macmillan}
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	year={2000}
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@book{b17,
	
	
		,
	title={{Policing Post-Conflict Cities}}
		,
	author={{
			AHills
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			,
	year={2009}
			,
	publisher={Zed Books}
			,
	address={London}
		
	

}

@incollection{b18,
	
	
		,
	title={{South West is Nigeria's kidnap capital}}
		,
	author={{
			NIbekwe
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Premium Times}}
		
			,
	year={2013. June 2022}
		
	
	,
	note={Report}

}

@incollection{b19,
	
	
		,
	title={{Regional Security Outfits and the Challenges of Insecurity in Nigeria}}
		,
	author={{
			CKIwuamadi
		} and {
			CENgwu
		} and {
			MCOnyemaobi
		}}
		
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{University of Nigeria Journal of Political Economy}}
		
			11
			2
			
			,
	year={2021}
		
	

}

@incollection{b20,
	
	
		,
	title={{Amotekun: IGP, S/West governors accept operating modalities southwest}}
		,
	author={{
			YIzuora
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Oriental News}}
		
			30
			,
	year={2020. May 2022}
		
	

}

@incollection{b21,
	
	
		,
	title={{Insecurity: IGP to deploy Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad to S}}
		,
	author={{
			DJohnson
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{West. Vanguard Newspaper}}
		
			,
	year={2019. May 2022}
		
	

}

@incollection{b22,
	
	
		,
	title={{Regional Security Partnership: the concept, model, practice and a preliminary comparative scheme in Monnet, J}}
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	author={{
			JMonnet
		}}
	
	
		,
	journal={{JMWP}}
		
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			,
	year={2005}
		
	
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	note={Working Paper in Comparative and International Politics}

}

@incollection{b23,
	
	
		,
	title={{Ethnic Vigilantes and the State: The Oodua People's Congress in South-Western Nigeria}}
		,
	author={{
			INolte
		}}
	
	
		,
	journal={{International Relations}}
		
			21
			2
			
			,
	year={2007}
		
	

}

@incollection{b24,
	
	
		,
	title={{From the Hub of Lagos: Horizontal integration for the Southwest region of Nigeria, a developmental imperative}}
		,
	author={{
			KCNwoko
		} and {
			OMOsiki
		}}
		
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Afrika Zamani}}
		
			24
			
			,
	year={2016}
		
	

}

@incollection{b25,
	
	
		,
	title={{Amotekun: The Southwest region's response to the failures of the Nigerian police and worsening insecurity in Nigeria}}
		,
	author={{
			KCNwoko
		}}
		10.1080/14725843.2021.1994368
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{African Identities}}
		
			8
			,
	year={2021. March 2022}
		
	

}

@incollection{b26,
	
	
		,
	title={{Regionalization of Non-State Security Agencies in Southwest Nigeria: Prospects and Challenges of "Amotekun}}
		,
	author={{
			ADOdewale
		} and {
			KOLamidi
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{European Scientific Journal}}
		
			16
			20
			
			,
	year={2020}
		
	

}

@book{b27,
	
	
		,
	title={{Understanding the Informal Security Sector in Nigeria}}
		,
	author={{
			EOgbozor
		}}
		
			,
	year={2016}
		
	
	,
	note={United States Institute of Peace Special Report}

}

@incollection{b28,
	
	
		,
	title={{National Security and Foreign policy: Towards A Review of Nigeria's Afro-Centric policy}}
		,
	author={{
			COkodolor
		}}
	
	
		,
	journal={{Nigerian Forum}}
		
			25
			7-8
			
			,
	year={2019}
		
	

}

@incollection{b29,
	
	
		,
	title={{Governors: Amotekun not a parallel security outfit}}
		,
	author={{
			BOladele
		} and {
			YAdeniran
		}}
		
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{The Nation}}
		
			,
	year={2020. January 2020}
			,
	address={Nigeria}
		
	

}

@incollection{b30,
	
	
		,
	title={{The Real Significance of Amotekun}}
		,
	author={{
			ROlawale
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Nigerian Tribune}}
		
			,
	year={2020. May 2022}
		
	

}

@book{b31,
	
	
		,
	title={{Community Security Handbook}}
		,
	author={{
			Saferworld
		}}
		
			,
	year={2014}
			,
	publisher={Saferworld}
			,
	address={London}
		
	

}

@incollection{b32,
	
	
		,
	title={{Policing the Context: Principles and Guidance to Inform InternationalPolicingAssistance}}
		,
	author={{
			Stabilisation Unit
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	booktitle={{a b i l i s a tion%20Unit_Policing%}}
		
			,
	year={2014. April 2022}
		
	

}

@incollection{b33,
	
	
		,
	title={{Regional Security in a Global Perspective}}
		,
	author={{
			FSoderbaum
		} and {
			BHettne
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	booktitle={{Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture. Promoting norms and institutionalising solutions}}
		,
	editor={
			UEngel
		 and 
			GPJoão
		 and 
			DBond
		}
		
		
		
			,
	year={2010}
		
	

}

@incollection{b34,
	
	
		,
	title={{An Analysis of the Constitutional Implication of South West Regional Security Initiative: Amotekun}}
		,
	author={{
			JUYahaya
		} and {
			MMBello
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{African Scholar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences}}
		
			17
			6
			
			,
	year={2020}
		
	

}

@incollection{b35,
	
	
		,
	title={{}}
	
	
		,
	journal={{London Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences}}
		
	

}