Articles in Volume 2, Number 2, 2023

  • PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE PEACE: THE ROLE OF ACCOUNTING IN A DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM IN NIGERIA

    This study investigated the relationship between public financial management and sustainable peace, given the role of accounting in a democratic system in Nigeria. The independent variables of public financial management (PFM) was critically examined to establish its relationship with sustainable peace (SBP).

  • PARTY POLITICS AND STRUCTURE: A SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE OBIDIENT MOVEMENT IN THE NIGERIAN 2023 ELECTIONS

    The Obidient movement which propelled the Labour Party to a stunning performance in the February 25 presidential and national legislative elections, is a watershed moment in Nigerian politics, with 6,101,533 votes won in 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Nothing like this has happened in the country since 1999, when democratic rule was restored.

  • DEMOCRACY, FINANCIAL JUSTICE AND SUSTAINABLE PEACE

    Democracy is a principle of governance that ensures equity, supremacy of the law and welfare of all citizens of a state using financial justice which entails an equal opportunity and fair ability for the entire people in society to pursue a financially autonomous, safe and healthy life, as an apparatus through which it realizes these tenets. In a country like Nigeria, democratic governance cum financial justice is the obiter dictum of sustainable peace. The objective of this paper is to unravel the paramount of the democratic process and financial justice to sustainable peace in Nigeria.

  • DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED VERSUS LEGALLY ELECTED AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN NIGERIA

    Not many will dispute the fact that Nigerian democracy is beleaguered and inundated by legal outcomes that have in many cases mitigated the chief tenet of democracy – majority rule. If democracy remains a system that rests on the collective will and choice of the majority and if the majority at elections have made a collective choice does it not amount to a subversion of the people’s will if the courts on technicalities legally declares another elected?

  • POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA 1999-2023

    The study examines the impact of public policy under democratic dispensation on the common wealth and the citizenry. It thrusts to bridge the gap between the state’s resources and the people. The Nigerian state has excluded itself from military incursion in governance for over twenty-five years. This suggests that within the decades, governments had consistently committed to the exploration and application of state resources on behalf of the people and the state as its principals.

  • DEMOCRACY AND GENDER EQUALITY: A PANACEA TO SUSTAINABLE PEACE IN NIGERIA

    Nigeria, a country with diverse ethnicities, cultures, and religious affiliations, has grappled with numerous challenges to its peace and stability. Among these challenges, gender inequality has persisted, undermining the full realization of democratic ideals and exacerbating conflicts. When the word "gender" is uttered, most people immediately associate it with women, who in many societies face discrimination and are frequently placed in a disadvantageous position with respect to men.

  • Volume 2, Number 2 – All Articles

    The Journal of Global South Research on Security and Development is a scholarly peer reviewed openaccess publication in the field of security and development. The Journal is committed to exploring the dialectical relationship between security and development. In other words, how do challenges associated with development create security problems and how do security problems in turn affect development?

  • HICCUPS IN GETTING TO THE HANDSHAKE MOMENT: INTERROGATING THE ENCUMBRANCES TO PEACE AGREEMENTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND BEYOND

    Pre-and post-Cold War history is replete with intractable conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and beyond that has defied several attempts at signing peace agreements (PAs). This paper asks why certain PAs easily get signed whereas other PAs experience undue delays or an outright decline.