Daniel Agbiboa

Daniel Agbiboa is a Fellow with UNIDIR’s Managing Exits from Armed Conflict Project. He is the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. Supported by the UK-funded Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends programme, his current research explores the social afterlives of the Boko Haram insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin, asking what it means for violence to end without resolution and how reconciliation, belonging and coexistence are negotiated in its wake.

Daniel is the author of several books, including:

• People as Protection: Civilians Countering Insurgency in Northeast Nigeria (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
• They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria (Oxford University Press, 2022)
• Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context (University of Michigan Press, 2022), winner of the 2023 Lee Ann Fujii Best Book Award and the International Studies Association Peace Studies Section’s Best Global South Scholar Book Award

He is also a recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Clarence Stone Scholar Award and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award. He has held fellowships with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.