The study assessed the spatio-temporal variation of Lake Chad including the implication of conflict on socio-economic activities. The specific objectives of the study included assessing the land cover change of the Basin from 2000 to 2020, assessing the hotspot conflict zones, examining factors causing conflict in the region, examining the effect of conflict on the socioeconomic and strategies to combat violence, and determining the conflict potential zones in the study area. Both primary and secondary data were used for this study and the primary data used included conduct key informant interviews (KII) for identified stakeholders. The secondary data used for this study included coordinates of the conflict sites, Landsat imageries (2000; 2010; 2020), Aster-DEM and conflict data. The Landsat imageries were subjected to unsupervised classification generating classified images and changes was calculated among the classified images using change detection algorithm. The conflict data was subjected to hotspot analysis in determining the hot and cool spot locations in the study area from 2012 to 2020. The KIIs were subjected to content analysis in addressing factors contributing to conflict, effect of conflict on socioeconomic and methods used in combating conflict in the study area. Multicriteria analysis was also used to generate conflict potential map. Results showed that 68% of the LGAs in the study area were found within the coverage of the hottest zone irrespective of any conflict type. However, 9442 and 5224 deaths were recorded as the total number of causalities during the arm conflict and violence on civilians respectively throughout the period of the study.
Spatio-temporal, Conflicts, Land cover, Socio-economic, Aster-DEM, KII
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