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Mr. Elias Courson is a lecturer with the Department of Philosophy, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. He is also an executive committee member of OUR NIGER DELTA (OND), a non-profit, non-governmental organisation in Nigeria’s oil rich Niger Delta. The organisation is involved in research, conflict management, resolution, mediation, peace building and facilitation of development.
Elias Courson, as a teacher and researcher, is neck deep in research, documentation and mediation in the oil induced crisis of Nigeria’s Niger Delta. He has been trained in conflict mediation/mitigation by the United Nations University for Peace on “Non-Violent Transformation of Conflict” and also by the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) on conflict resolution skills.
Elias Courson earned his Bachelor of Arts (1997) and Master of Arts (2005) degrees in Philosophy from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, respectively.
Elias Courson contributed to the following reports on oil activities in the Delta:
- A Blanket of Silence: Images of the Odi Genocide by Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (2003)
- The Shell Report: Continuing Abuses in Nigeria, 10 years after the Killing of Ken Saro-Wiwa by Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria(2005)
Odi Revisited? Oil and State Violence in Odioma, Brass LGA, Bayelsa State, Economies of Violence Project, University of California Berkeley, 2005. |
