For all the academic and policy interest in Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgency, the coping strategies of civilians who survive amid everyday violence have received relatively little attention. Focusing on the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), a pro-government militia fighting Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, Agbiboa explores how and why the group emerged, the nature of its relationship with the state and local communities, and how counterinsurgent vigilantism affects the prospects for peace. A focus on vigilantes and civil militias vis-à-vis the state points to the vital role of civil-military cooperation for effective counterinsurgency campaigns and for reducing state violence against civilians. At the same time, it underscores the precariousness of protection both in terms of increasing the targeting of civilians by vengeful insurgents as well as the tendency for civilian defense groups to “turn bad” and become threats to the communities they were expected to protect.

尽管尼日利亚博科哈拉姆叛乱组织具有学术和政策上的全部利益，但在日常暴力中幸存下来的平民的应对策略却很少受到关注。Agbiboa专注于与尼日利亚东北部的博科圣地作战的亲政府民兵平民联合特遣部队（CJTF），探讨了该团体的出现方式和原因，与州和地方社区的关系性质以及反叛叛乱的警惕性如何影响到该组织。和平的前景。对国家的民兵和民兵的关注指出，军民合作对于有效的平叛运动和减少国家对平民的暴力具有至关重要的作用。同时，