Gustavo Plácido dos Santos

Gustavo Plácido dos Santos is a researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security (IPRIS).

Boko Haram: time for an alternative approach

Military responses to Boko Haram have proved ineffective, as the latest atrocities in Nigeria highlight. An alternative focused on good governance, policing and socio-economic development, supported by the international community, would be much more likely to succeed.

By Gustavo Plácido dos Santos

/ 15 Apr 2014

Education and violent extremism in Nigeria

For Boko Haram, 'western civilisation is forbidden'. In a context of poor school attendance among Muslims, especially poor Muslims, is the almajiri system of schooling it favours compatible with a peacebuilding project for the country?

By Gustavo Plácido dos Santos

/ 30 Oct 2013