The impact of fourth industrial revolution era on Nigeria’s counterterrorism strategy towards Boko Haram movement
The emergence of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is both thrilling and frightening. The technology under this era would have an impact on mankind. The 4IR has the potentials of increasing income heights through new entrepreneur innovations. The new technologies under 4IR will improve prod...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2020
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15644/1/39013-123848-1-SM.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15644/ http://ejournals.ukm.my/jebat/issue/view/1260 |
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Institution: | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia |
Language: | English |
Summary: | The emergence of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is both thrilling
and frightening. The technology under this era would have an impact
on mankind. The 4IR has the potentials of increasing income heights
through new entrepreneur innovations. The new technologies under
4IR will improve productivity and reduce the cost of communication
and transportation. On the one hand, there are numerous gains of the
4IR, on the other hand, there are also many challenges associated
with it. With particular reference to security, it is feared that the 4IR
could pave the way to greater insecurity, particularly when it is used
by terrorists like Boko Haram to carry out their attacks. The main
argument of this paper is that the non-deployment of 4IR technologies
in countering Boko Haram terrorism is a major hindrance to Nigeria’s
war against terrorism. The major objective of this study is to investigate
how the use of 4IR technologies have enhanced the activities of Boko
Haram terrorist and Nigerian counterterrorism operatives. The
data for this research were sourced through secondary sources and
analyzed by the use of the qualitative method. The strategic theory
was espoused as the framework of analysis. The research discovered
that the sophistication in the activities of Boko Haram is bone out of
the utilization of the 4IR technologies in their operations. The 4IR
enable the terrorist to seek assistance from renowned terrorist groups
and acquire state-of-the-art weapons and training. The paper further
reveals that the Nigerian counterterrorism initiative is not effective
in curbing the Boko Haram attacks partly because it is premised
around the third industrial revolution technologies. This research
recommends 4IR technology compliance as the first step to match the
Boko Haram onslaught before the use of soft power. |
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