John Campbell and Asch Harwood's analysis for the Council on Foreign Relations compares two independently maintained datasets tracking the Boko Haram insurgency's toll, the Council's own Nigeria Security Tracker and the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), across the period from June 2011 through June 2018. Campbell is a former United States ambassador to Nigeria and a senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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AuthorJohn Campbell and Asch Harwood 1 PublisherCouncil on Foreign Relations 1 Publication Year URLhttps://www.cfr.org/article/boko-harams-deadly-impact 1 Assessment
Reliability TierA named policy analysis by a former United States ambassador to Nigeria for an established foreign policy think tank, built on two independently maintained conflict-tracking datasets rather than the think tank's own reporting; treated as a strong secondary tier below a peer-reviewed academic monograph. Cross-Tradition Connections
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