FOREIGN POLICY AND INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT IN NIGERIA: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE DIPLOMATIC RESPONSE OF NIGERIA TO THE IDP CRISIS (2015-2025)

OGAR MARIA, THERESA OKPOWU (2026) FOREIGN POLICY AND INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT IN NIGERIA: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE DIPLOMATIC RESPONSE OF NIGERIA TO THE IDP CRISIS (2015-2025). Other thesis, GODFREY OKOYE UNIVERSITY, ENUGU.

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Abstract

Internal displacement continues to be a key humanitarian and foreign policy challenge in Nigeria. This study looks at foreign policy and internal displacement in Nigeria by assessing the diplomatic response of Nigeria to the internally displaced persons (IDP) crisis from 2015 to 2025. The study used documentary and ex post facto research designs as well as depended on secondary data from government policy documents, United Nations reports, African Union as well as ECOWAS records, humanitarian databases, academic journals, as well as institutional publications. The data were studied through qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis, guided by Responsibility to Protect as well as Liberal Institutionalism. The findings reveal that Nigeria has used bilateral donor engagement, multilateral humanitarian diplomacy, regional security cooperation, and policy structures to respond to the IDP crisis, but these efforts have remained to a large extent reactive as well as institutionalised with weak depth. The study further found that regional cooperation through the MNJTF, African Union, and Lake Chad Basin structures has created partial conditions for return, although ECOWAS instability, donor fatigue, funding decline, institutional division, as well as delayed domestication of the Kampala Convention have reduced effectiveness. The study concludes that the diplomatic response of Nigeria has not produced durable solutions at the scale required. It recommends that internal displacement should become a strategic pillar of the foreign policy doctrine of Nigeria. Keywords. Internal displacement, foreign policy, diplomatic strategies, regional cooperation, Responsibility to Protect, Liberal Institutionalism, Nigeria, Lake Chad Basin

Item Type: Thesis (Other)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Management and Social Sciences
Depositing User: CHIBUEZE EZE
Date Deposited: 03 Aug 2026 10:04
Last Modified: 03 Aug 2026 10:04
URI: http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/6130

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