John Peter Okoro

@uds.edu.gh

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

John Peter Okoro


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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: 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
217

Scholar Citations

6

Scholar h-index

4

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Efficacy of Traditional Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Facilitating Peacebuilding Between Herdsmen and Farmers in the West Mamprusi Municipal of Ghana
    JP Okoro, S Dittoh, DA Doke
    Integrating Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Food Systems … , 2025
    2025
  • 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
    2024
    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
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • 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
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • Entrepreneurship education and youth unemployment challenges in Africa: Ghana in perspective
    JP Okoro, TB Nassè, AB Ngmendoma, N Carbonell, M Nanema
    International Journal of management & entrepreneurship Research 4 (5), 213-231 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 25
  • 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
    2021
    Citations: 1
  • Herdsmen-farmers conflict: implication on national development (Nigeria in Perspective)
    JP Okoro
    International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research 11 (Issue 2), 808 … , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 60
  • 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
    2020
    Citations: 9
  • Community policing and crime management in the Wa municipality, Upper West region of Ghana
    JP Okoro
    2020
    Citations: 11
  • Herdsmen/farmers conflict and its effects on socio-economic development in Nigeria
    JO Peter
    Journal of peace, security and development , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 100
  • Humanitarian Challenges Facing Internally Displaced Persons in Camps in Borno State, Nigeria
    JP Okoro
    Unpublished Thesis. National Open University of Nigeria , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 2

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Herdsmen/farmers conflict and its effects on socio-economic development in Nigeria
    JO Peter
    Journal of peace, security and development , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 100
  • Herdsmen-farmers conflict: implication on national development (Nigeria in Perspective)
    JP Okoro
    International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research 11 (Issue 2), 808 … , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 60
  • Entrepreneurship education and youth unemployment challenges in Africa: Ghana in perspective
    JP Okoro, TB Nassè, AB Ngmendoma, N Carbonell, M Nanema
    International Journal of management & entrepreneurship Research 4 (5), 213-231 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 25
  • Community policing and crime management in the Wa municipality, Upper West region of Ghana
    JP Okoro
    2020
    Citations: 11
  • 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
    2020
    Citations: 9
  • 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
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • 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
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Humanitarian Challenges Facing Internally Displaced Persons in Camps in Borno State, Nigeria
    JP Okoro
    Unpublished Thesis. National Open University of Nigeria , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 2
  • 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
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • 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
    2021
    Citations: 1
  • Efficacy of Traditional Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Facilitating Peacebuilding Between Herdsmen and Farmers in the West Mamprusi Municipal of Ghana
    JP Okoro, S Dittoh, DA Doke
    Integrating Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Food Systems … , 2025
    2025