For decades, Lake Chad Basin (LCB) countries have grappled with various forms of insecurity including banditry, abduction, highway robbery and cattle rustling among other challenges. In addition, the most significant security challenges confronting the LCB remain the Boko Haram crisis. Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria have all been impacted by violent extremism that impedes State functionality and its capacity and willingness to provide human security.

The focus on conflict dynamics in the LCB is therefore to be understood as a critical examination of the wide spectrum of actors, structures and processes that spawn insecurity in the region while still centring the Boko Haram phenomenon and its connections with other conflict or security dynamics.

This conflict analysis report was prepared by the Secretariat of the Lake Chad Basin Regional Strategy for Stabilisation, Recovery and Resilience to help inform programming aimed at the resilience and recovery of the Lake Chad Basin region with key recommendations targeted at LCB countries, regional and international actors, civil society organisations and the private sector.