FLEECOIN Boko Haram Counterinsurgency: Fleeing Men and Boys

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The FLEECOIN project addresses a serious gap in research on counterinsurgency (COIN): the gendered effects that COIN campaignshave on the civilian population, and the strategies employed by men and boys to escape the gender-based violence (GBV) related toCOIN. With this innovative focus, and exploring in depth the case study of COIN against Boko Haram (BH) in Nigeria, the project makestwo core contributions to knowledge. First, FLEECOIN contributes to emergent scholarship that amplifies the research focus on GBVto include the experiences of men and boys. Secondly, this project deepens and nuances our understanding of the effects of states'COIN campaigns on civilians, and of the coping mechanisms used by vulnerable males in response, especially fleeing. Here, itsprimary focus is on understanding flight as a response to COIN by civilian men and adolescent boys. The FLEECOIN research isdesigned as a qualitative case study and will involve fieldwork in Nigeria. The major instrument for primary data collection will be indepthinterviews with experts, men and adolescent boys who have fled their communities, soldiers who have taken part in BokoHaram-related COIN operations, and residents of communities from where men and boys fled. Failure to address the suffering of malevictims during violent conflicts has profound consequences for the survivor because it excludes them from assistance and support.The research coincides with Horizon Europe work programme cluster 2 "Culture, creativity and inclusive society", specificallyHORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS01-05: Gender and social, economic and cultural empowerment, interested in intersectionsbetween gender and other social categories and the cumulative effect of multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantages, and inhow gendered power hierarchies lead to systematic GBV.