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Conflict management in Nigeria 1.

1 Introduction Conflict is a situation in which people, groups or countries are involved in serious disagreement or argument. Conflicts are inevitable societal phenomenon. Management of conflicts can stem down the tide of these evils or worsen them. Often, the usual way of using force to stop crises or conflict is only necessary as emergent measure. Since independence; Nigeria has never escaped a season that was free of crises both at community level and beyond. The crises, each time they occurred used to bring calamities of monumental effects that often shook the country to its foundations. In 1962, there was Action Group (AG) crises in the Western part of Nigeria, this culminated in January 15, 1966 coup detat which led to the killings of some prominent. Consequent upon this was the counter coup of July 27, 1967 where General Aguyi Ironsi, the then Head of State, Brigadier General Adekunle Fajuyi, the military administrator of Western region, and many others were killed. This climaxed in Nigerian civil war which was fought between 1967-1970. The effects were unprecedented in the history of political crises in Nigeria. The June 12 crisis is yet another political crisis that rocked Nigeria to its foundation. More recently is the Boko-Haram crises. This crisis also left bitter pill in the mouth of the Nigerian nation. 1.2 Aims and Objectives The aim of this thesis is to suggest measures so as to contain and, if possible:

Reduce the level of violence and destruction of properties during conflicts Prevent the vertical escalation of conflicts towards the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)

Prevent the horizontal expansion of conflicts into other areas.

1.3 Methodology This thesis hopes to review past literatures on conflict in Nigeria in the light of current crises and possible solutions to prevent further escalation of current conflicts in Nigeria 1.4 Possible Contribution to Learning

The wanton destruction of lives and properties occasioned by incessant cconflict that Nigerian nation experiences call for the need to look into the issue of conflict management, a strategy that can help to nib conflict in the bud and to prevent it from escalation if it erupts, as well as to sustain peace to avert future occurrence of crises and their attendant large scale effects. Suffice to state that though we do not have the option of staying out of conflicts as human beings, unless we stay out of relationship, family, work and community, but this thesis suggest the inculcation of conflict management strategies and sharpening of crises management skills so that areas in conflict can interact meaningfully with one another to solve their differences Refrences Alabi, A.O., 2010. The Nigerian nation and management of conflicts and crises. Lead paper presented at the Annual National Conference of the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Federal College of Education (SP) Oyo, 9th June 2010. Ahtisaari, M.,2009. What makes for successful Conflict Resolution? Development Dialogue Dag Hammarskjold Centre No. 53, pp: 41-49. Albert, I.O., 2003. Colonialism, labour migrations and indigene/setter conflicts in Nigeria. Afr. J. Peace Conflict Stud., University of Ibadan - The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, 1(1): 91-117. Schmid, 2000. Thesaurus and Glossary of Early Warning and Conflict Prevention Terms. Forum on Early Warning and Early Response, London. World Book Inc., 2004. The World Book Encyclopedia. Vol. 14, World Book Inc., Chicago.

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