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

Environmental Conflict and Herdsmen-farmers Conflict in Nigeria


Applications Invited
Thesis Research Grant
108

Scholar Citations

4

Scholar h-index

2

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • 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

  • The Incidence of Crime and Implications for Crime Management in the Wa Municipality of the Upper West Region, Ghana
    JP Okoro, EK Derbile, L Anzagra
    African Social Science and Humanities Journal 1 (1), 52-70 2020

  • 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

  • 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: 58

  • Herdsmen-farmers conflict: implication on national development (Nigeria in Perspective)
    JP Okoro
    International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research 11 (Issue 2), 808 2020
    Citations: 29

  • 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: 7

  • 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
    Citations: 6

  • The Incidence of Crime and Implications for Crime Management in the Wa Municipality of the Upper West Region, Ghana
    JP Okoro, EK Derbile, L Anzagra
    African Social Science and Humanities Journal 1 (1), 52-70 2020
    Citations: 3

  • 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
    Citations: 2

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    Unpublished Thesis.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

  • 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
    Citations: 1