Closely examining the relationship between religion, ethnicity and conflict in. As a result of the multiethnic nature of the country, conflicts remain a critical problem that requires a total attention of all and sundry. In this article, we take a look at some of the major ethnic and religious ethnoreligious conflicts in nigeria, with particular emphasis on the ethnoreligious conflicts that occurred after return to civil rule in 1999. The study investigated the effects of ethnoreligious conflicts on economic development of nigeria.
Implications on women article pdf available in mediterranean journal of social sciences 851. The research examined the traditional strategies used by the zar people in zar land in. Photo x nigerian troops provide security in jos, nigeria, january 2010. This paper aims to highlight some of the ethnoreligious. Christian indigenes need only point to the discrimination. Ethnoreligious conflict in jos, plateau state, nigeria. What are the interfaith efforts to ameliorate or mitigate ethnoreligious conflict. The root cause of this set of riot was the introduction of the islamic legal code sharia by some.
Of all these important institutions has actually increased ethnic and communal conflicts. Systematically examined communal conflict dynamics in northern. To preclude religious conflict in nigeria therefore, religious leaders and. Religion and conflict in nigeria united states institute of peace. A case study of langtang north lga of plateau state. Nigeria inherited a series of sociopolitical conflicts and economic downturn as a result of her colonial experience. Ethnoreligious conflicts in nigeria are diagnosed in this paper following sandoles as cited in cheldelin et al. Another ethnoreligious conflict that left a remarkable mark in nigeria was the kadunaenugu riots. Ethno religious conflict at tusung village in barkin ladi lga, plateau state. Pdf ethnoreligious conflicts have continued to besiege nigeria for decades. Boko haram has waged war in nigeria for 10 years to eliminate religious. Ethnoreligious conflict in jos, plateau state, nigeria by jana krause. Religious dogmatism, prejudice and conflict in nigeria ssrn.
Background to the northern nigeria ethnoreligious conflict. Colonial masters play a vital role in the growth of ethno religious conflicts, these colonial masters brought the christianity with them and try to penetrate the western values in the system of nigeria. Human rights watch, those terrible weeks in their camp, october 2014. The terms that need clarifying are education, religious conflict and national security. The phenomenon of communal conflict has assumed the posture of. Silencing the ethnoreligious insurgencies in nigeria.
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