Dr Okafor-Yarwood's research to date has generated critical insights around the blue economy, environmental justice, human security, maritime governance, and security. She brings a critical lens to the concept of sustainable development in relation to the management of marine and other natural resources and challenges the dominant assumptions on the areas of security, environmental justice, and maritime governance.
Her multidisciplinary research combines empirical (indigenous epistemologies), doctrinal, historical, and theoretical analysis to investigate the complexities that shape environmental justice, maritime and natural resource governance and security in Africa.
She is continuing to advance the understanding of sustainability as a question of resource management, environmental justice, and the disproportionate effects of depleting resources on security, poverty, and inequality.
Experience
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2019–presentVisiting Fellow, National Defence College, Abuja, Nigeria
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2020–presentLecturer, University of St Andrews
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2016–2019Graduate Teaching Assistant, SSPP King's College London
Education
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2019King's College London, PhD in Leadership, Security and Development
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2013King's College London, MA in conflict security and development
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2012London Metropolitan University, BA in International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies
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2009London Metropolitan University, Preparatory Diploma in Law
Publications
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2019Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, and the complexities of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) for countries in the Gulf of Guinea, Marine Policy 99; 414-422
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2018The effects of oil pollution on the marine environment in the Gulf of Guinea—the Bonga Oil Field example, Transnational Legal Theory
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2015The Guinea-Bissau–Senegal maritime boundary dispute, Marine Policy 61; 284–290
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2014Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons in Contemporary Military Interventions, Asian Journal of Peace-building Vol. 2; 1 111-125
Professional Memberships
- Associate Member of the Higher Education Academy
- Associate member, Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies
Honours
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA); PEW Marine Fellow (2023)
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