John Peter Okoro

@uds.edu.gh

PhD Candidate, Department of Environment and Sustainability Sciences
University for Development Studies, Tamale Ghana

https://researchid.co/j.p.okoro

Hail from Okposi, Ohaozara Local Government Area in Ebonyi state of Nigeria. The founder and director of the Better-Tomorrow for the Helpless Foundation (BTHF) and a research/teaching assistant at the University for Development Studies, Tamale Ghana

EDUCATION

Diploma: Tropical Health and Disease Control, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola
B.Sc: Criminology and Security Studies, National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja
PGD: Education
M.Sc: Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja
MPhil: Development Management, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana
PhD (in view): Environmental Management and Sustainability

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Crime, Policing, Conflict, peacebuilding and development, humanitarianism, environmental sustainability, and higher education studies

FUTURE PROJECTS

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Scholar Citations

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RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Exploring the scale and scope of community policing in North-Western Ghana
JP Okoro, E Bagson, EK Derbile
Journal of Planning and Land Management 3 (2), 27-36 2024

From the Sustainable Development Goal 16 to the African Union Silencing the Guns Agenda: Why It Is So Difficult to Achieve Sustainable Peace and Stability in Africa?
PA Yeboah, JP Okoro
Africa's Engagement with the Responsibility to Protect in the 21st Century 2024

Perceptions on farming as a profession: teenagers under the spotlight in Kwakyekrom in the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipality, Ghana
E Osei, E Keku, D Aluah, JP Okoro
Scientific Electronic Archives 16 (1) 2023

Entrepreneurship education and youth unemployment challenges in Africa: Ghana in perspective
JP Okoro, TB Nass, AB Ngmendoma, N Carbonell, M Nanema
International Journal of management & entrepreneurship Research 4 (5), 213-231 2022

Pandemic Within Pandemics: Racism, Hunger, and Insecurity in Africa
RO Olaniyi, SA Sangare, S Olaoluwa, JP Okoro
African Journal of Sustainable Development 11 (1), 2021 2021

Herdsmen-farmers conflict: implication on national development (Nigeria in Perspective)
JP Okoro
International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research 11 (Issue 2), 808 2020

Transforming higher education for socio-economic development and peacebuilding in Africa
JP Okoro
Addaiyan Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 2 (6), 20-34 2020

Community policing and crime management in the Wa municipality, Upper West region of Ghana
JP Okoro
2020

Herdsmen/farmers conflict and its effects on socio-economic development in Nigeria
JP Okoro
Journal of Peace, Security, and Development 4 (1), 143-158 2018

Humanitarian Challenges Facing Internally Displaced Persons in Camps in Borno State, Nigeria
JP Okoro
Unpublished Thesis. National Open University of Nigeria 2016

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Herdsmen/farmers conflict and its effects on socio-economic development in Nigeria
JP Okoro
Journal of Peace, Security, and Development 4 (1), 143-158 2018
Citations: 81

Herdsmen-farmers conflict: implication on national development (Nigeria in Perspective)
JP Okoro
International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research 11 (Issue 2), 808 2020
Citations: 43

Community policing and crime management in the Wa municipality, Upper West region of Ghana
JP Okoro
2020
Citations: 7

Transforming higher education for socio-economic development and peacebuilding in Africa
JP Okoro
Addaiyan Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 2 (6), 20-34 2020
Citations: 6

Humanitarian Challenges Facing Internally Displaced Persons in Camps in Borno State, Nigeria
JP Okoro
Unpublished Thesis. National Open University of Nigeria 2016
Citations: 2