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Curbing Violent Extremism Through Peacebuilding in Nigeria

Author(s)

Temitope Olaifa

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DOI:10.17265/1548-6591/2017.04.004

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Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

Violent conflict is no longer alien to the Nigerian psyche. The polity has been severally rocked by violent conflicts since independence. However, the magnitude of the devastation occasioned by these conflicts has not been as intensely impacting as the country has experienced it since seven years of Boko Haram insurgency in northeastern part of the country. The other regions of the country are not spared in the violent conflict experience, although at a lower intensity, kidnapping, pipeline vandalisation, and ritual killings are rife particularly in the southern parts of Nigeria. There is an unbridled case of proliferation of arms and hard drugs. Almost three hundred young women were abducted in 2014 and government has not fully rescued them from their captors. This paper seeks to explore the expediency of Nigeria turning its searchlight to peacebuilding as an alternative to armed responses to insurgencies and violent conflicts by embracing non-violent options to conflict prevention, mitigation, management, and transformation. Peacebuilding activities would force down the number of illicit arms in the society and make arms’ ownership, trade, and usage unattractive. Nigeria would then be able to harness its resources for sustainable development.

KEYWORDS

violent extremism, peacebuilding, conflict, insurgency

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Journal of US-China Public Administration, April 2017, Vol. 14, No. 4, 221-231

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