Prof. Freedom Chukwudi Onuoha is currently the Coordinator of Security, Violence and Conflict (SVC) Research Group at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He possesses over seventeen years of teaching, researching, training, publication, leadership and administrative experiences. His current teaching and research interests focus on diverse aspects of national and transnational security threats, with emphasis on organised crime, violent extremism, terrorism, insurgency, maritime security, climate change, violent conflict, and state fragility. Prof. Onuoha has conducted analysis, policy outreach, and/or fieldwork in multiple countries in sub–Saharan Africa, including in Cameroon, Chad, Liberia, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Togo, and Uganda. He is currently a member of the Folke Bernadotte Academy’s International Research Working Group on Africa. He was a member of the National Working Group that developed Nigeria’s first-ever Policy Framework and National Action Plan for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (2017). Prof. Onuoha has a robust publication profile and has won several academic grants and awards. He is a regular guest on many local, national and international broadcast and print media outlets, including AIT, Channels TV, Al Jazeera, France24, CGTN, WION TV, VOA BBC and others, providing expert opinions on topical governance, security and development issues.

Publications

• Onuoha, F.C., Obianagwa, C.E., Isaac, N. (2024). Kidnapping and Baby Factory in Nigeria. In: Omotola, J.S., Oyewole, S. (eds) The Political Economy of Kidnapping and Insecurity in Nigeria. Springer, Cham, https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/kidnapping-and-baby-factory-in-nigeria/26922678
• Onuoha F.C., & Uche, J. C. (2022) Smuggling of crude oil and petroleum products across Cameroon-Nigeria borders. In: O. Agbu & Nna-Emeka Okereke C. (Eds.) Cameroon-Nigeria relations trends and perspectives (pp. 199-216). Rowman & Littlefield, https://books.google.com.ng/books?hl=en&lr=&id=EZySEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA199&ots=YPOUDgwZ81&sig=xDMSqikCN8OcdRjHLK3BGhCRUPc&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Onuoha, F. C. (2022). The terrorism-organized crime nexus in the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. In L. Paoli, Fijnaut, C., and Jan Wouters, J. (Eds) The nexus between organized crime and terrorism: Types and responses (pp 366 – 390). Edward Elgar, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979306.00024
• Onuoha, F.C (2014). The evolving menace of baby factories and trafficking in Nigeria. African Security Review, 23(4), 405-411. https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.941886
• Onuoha, F.C (2013). Piracy and maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea: Trends, concerns, and propositions. Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 4(3), 267 – 293. https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2013.862767
• Onuoha, F.C. (2012). Illegal oil bunkering: Nigerian context and transnational ramifications for the Gulf of Guinea. Politeia, 31(2), 5 – 27. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC130232