ABSTRACT
More crucially, while the various responses have yielded some positive dividends since March 2015, with the Nigerian military and the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) recapturing most of the towns which were hitherto under Boko Haram's control and leading to the death of many fighters and the freeing of hundreds of captives, attacks by the group still continue, although in a much lesser form, though the violence and brutalities meted out to victims nevertheless remained the same. This has raised several critical, but more methodological questions in both policy and public discourses as to whether these existing responses have been effective in combating the threats posed by Boko Haram. This chapter discusses the dominant factors driving Boko Haram and how the insurgency has mutated over time, examines the effectiveness of existing interventions at the national and regional levels and, with the gaps identified, provides alternative options in addressing the problem.
