The 2022 Conference on Islamic Protest, Terrorism and Security in Africa will bring researchers from various disciplines together with policymakers, students and academics to broaden and deepen the understanding of violent insurgencies and terrorism as multi-dimensional phenomena to be examined from innovative and multi-disciplinary perspectives. This conference is a creation of the project “Boko Haram, Islamic Protest and National Security” funded by Canada‘s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to create an international research network of scholars from the American University of Nigeria, York University, the University of Maroua in Cameroon, University of Toronto, University of Ottawa, Umaru Musa Yar‘adua University in Katsina Nigeria, U.S. universities and Non-Government Organizations. This network has been successful in sharing information among its members, and fostering creative partnerships which have produced academic publications, policy recommendations and innovative opportunities for future scholarship. To further these innovations, the 2022 Conference will bring together scholars from Norway, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, China, Canada, USA, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon. The conference will thus create a forum for discussion of ideas between academics, political and non-government organizations and support future relationships between these groups by expanding the network of stakeholders to the project and its goals of understanding the underlying motivations of violence.