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Sample Academic Publications and Outputs

Books and Edited Volumes

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  1. Jacob, J.U. & Narasimha R. (Eds.) (2025). AI and the Future of Democracy: Building Resilient and Inclusive Societies. London: Routledge. (Forthcoming)

  2. Garcia, A. & Jacob, J.U. (Eds.) (2025). Silencing the Guns in Africa: Peace and Conflict in Society. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University Press.

  3. Aryaeinejad, K., Reed A., Heywood E., & Jacob, J.U. (Eds.) (2023). Researching Violent Extremism: Considerations, Reflections, and Perspectives. Washington DC: RESOLVE Network, US Institute of Peace.

  4. Jacob, J.U. & Ensign M. (2020). Transactional Radio Instruction: Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Conflict Zones. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

  5. Jacob, J.U. (2017). Convincing Rebel Fighters to Disarm: UN Information Operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Berlin: De Gruyter.

 

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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  1. Jacob, J.U. (2024). Where there is no theory of Disinformation: Three Maxims to Guide Counternarrative Strategies. Narrative Strategies Journal.  Issue 16, October 30.

  2. Jacob, J.U. (2023). Cognitive Third Force: The Case for Building a Supranational Public Opinion to Enhance the UN's Moral Influence. Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 29(3), 259-269.

  3. Jacob, J.U. (2023). UN Peacekeeping Missions are facing a Crisis of Legitimacy in Africa: Here is how influence operations can help. Information Professionals Association. October 2.

  4. Jacob J.U. & Rizvi, W. R. (2022). Beyond Grades: Advancing Global Learning through Personal and Social Responsibility. In D. Johnston & I. Lopez (Eds.), Wiley Handbook for Collaborative Online Learning and Global Engagement. New York: Wiley.

  5. Jacob, J.U. (2021). Countermeasures to Extremist Propaganda: a strategy for countering absolutist religious beliefs in northeast Nigeria. In G. Rawnsley, Y. Ma, & K. Pothong (Eds.), Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Political Propaganda. London: Edward Elgar.

  6. Jacob, J.U. (2021). Outsourcing Public Diplomacy Operations: Neoliberalism and the Communications of the United Nations since the End of the Cold War. In C. Alexander (Ed.), The Frontiers of Public Diplomacy: Hegemony, Morality and Power in the International Sphere (1st ed.). London: Routledge.

  7. Jacob J.U. (2019). Communitarianism, Ethics and the Burden of Journalistic Objectivity: Reflections of "Peace Journalists" Covering the Boko Haram Insurgency. In I. Shaw & S. Selvarajah (Eds.), Reporting Human Rights, Conflicts, and Peacebuilding. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

  8. Jacob J.U. (2018). The War has just begun: Boko Haram and the Coming Diffusion of Terror in Nigeria. In D. Dilegge & R.J. Bunker (Eds.), Hammer of the Caliphate: The Territorial Demise of the Islamic State. McLean, VA: Small Wars Journal Foundation.

  9. Jacob, J.U. (2018). Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses by Hilary Matfess. Politics, Religion & Ideology, 19(3), 418-420. (Book Review)

  10. Jacob, J.U. (2017). Cultural Approaches to Soft Power. In N. Chitty, C. Hayden, L. Ji & G. Rawnsley (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Soft Power. London: Routledge.

  11. Jacob, J.U. (2017). Owning God: An Identity-based View of Violent Extremism. Global Peace Operations Review. July 13.

  12. Jacob, J.U. (2017). The War has just begun: Boko Haram and the Coming Diffusion of Terror in Nigeria. Small Wars Journal. March 10.

  13. Jacob, J.U., Abia-Bassey M., Nkanga. E., & Aliyu, A. (2016). Narratives of Displacement: Conversations with Boko Haram Displaced Persons in Northeast Nigeria. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 20(2).

  14. Jacob, J.U. (2016). Target Gutahuka: The UN's Strategic Information Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Media and Communication, 4(2), 104-119.

  15. Jacob, J.U. (2016). Michika: Peace & Reconciliation [Documentary Film]. Nigeria: Communications & Multimedia Design Program, American University of Nigeria.

  16. Jacob, J.U. & Akpan, I. (2015). Silencing Boko Haram: Mobile Phone Blackout and Counterinsurgency in Nigeria's Northeast Region. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 4(1), 1-17.

  17. Jacob, J.U. (2015). Influencing the Information Domain: The UN's Information Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In W. Mano (Ed.), Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa. London: I.B. Tauris.

  18. Jacob, J.U. (2014). Transforming Conflicts with Information: Impacts of UN Peace Radio programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo. War & Society, 33(4).

  19. Jacob, J.U. (2013). Energising Visual Cultures: Sociotechnical Processes to achieve customer engagement and behaviour change. Metering International, Issue 4, 36-39.

  20. Macdonald, I.W. & Jacob, J.U. (2011). Lost and gone forever? The search for early British Screenplays. Journal of Screenwriting, 2(2), 161-177.

  21. Jacob, J.U. (2011) Battling Radical Islamist Propaganda in Somalia: The Information Intervention Option. Small Wars Journal, 7(5) 05/2011.

 

Reports and Policy Briefs

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  1. Jacob, J.U. & Angelov G. (2025). Bulgaria: Strategic Threat Assessment of the Pravda Network. Center for Information, Democracy & Citizenship, American University in Bulgaria.

  2. Jacob, J.U. & Angelov G. (2025). The Pravda Ecosystem: An Analysis of the Kremlin's Regional Disinformation Strategy. Center for Information, Democracy & Citizenship, American University in Bulgaria.

  3. Jacob, J.U. (2024). Southport Stabbings and the Amplification of Misinformation. CIDC-Sensika Disinformation Observatory, American University in Bulgaria.

  4. Jacob J.U. & Pukallus S. (2020). A white paper on the draft revised Public Information and Strategic Communication Module 4.60 of the Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Standards. The UN's Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions. July 22.

  5. Pape, U.J., Sharma, A., Nezam, T., Petrini, B., Ebrahim, M.F., Jacob, J.U., et al. (2019). Using Micro-Data to Inform Durable Solutions for IDPs. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

  6. Ensign, M. & Jacob J.U. (2017). Where there is no school: Radio and Mobile Technologies in Crisis and Post-Conflict Societies. An Evaluation Brief of the USAID-funded Technology Enhanced Learning for All (TELA) program. American University of Nigeria.

  7. Jacob, J.U. (2016). Handbook of Peace Journalism: A Training Manual. American University of Nigeria & US Embassy in Abuja.

  8. Jacob, J.U. (2016). Telling Stories of Peace and Reconciliation in North-East Nigeria. Report on the US Embassy-AUN Peace Journalism Project.

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