Ifeanyichukwu Charles Nweke is a Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) at Leiden University. His interdisciplinary work lies at the intersection of Security Studies, Environmental Conflict, Decolonial Thought, and Postcolonial Politics.

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His doctoral research - 'Amotekun as Colonial Afterlife: How Colonial Legacies Shape Security Politics, Conflict, and Governance in Postcolonial Nigeria' - explores the emergence of ethnic-based security formations in Nigeria’s Southwest. It investigates how regional security actors like Amotekun contest, reproduce, and reimagine the postcolonial state through ethnic mobilisation, securitisation, and decoloniality via immersive fieldwork. Nweke's scholarship analyses colonial legacies in Nigerian security politics and the tensions they create in contemporary security governance while enhancing the discourse on rethinking the foundations of security and conflict studies by developing alternative frameworks for threat, order, and resistance. His MSc thesis pioneered research on the securitization of the Almajirai in Northern Nigeria.