Jemima Ackah-Arthur is a PhD Candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She has broader interests in conflict and security, transitional justice, peacebuilding, and human security. Jemima studies how states maintain security by exploring government action towards political violence, conflict, terrorism, and insurgency in sub-Saharan Africa. Using qualitative methods, her dissertation pays attention to the variations in security sector responses toward acts of terrorism within a state. It examines whether government elite interests or political interests determine the responses to these acts within areas facing violence. Particularly, it investigates the divergent government and military responses to the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria.