Conflict Peace and Security: The Nigeria Experience

Abstract

Conflict, peace and security issues today have become a matter of global concern. Every society on earth is riddled with conflict but there is no societies that will want conflict to degenerate into crisis talk less of violence or war. In Nigeria today, crisis of boko haram insurgency, Fulani herdsmen and farmers clashes, cattle rustling, militant group crisis, political crisis, corruption and a host of others have caused a lot of challenges that has threaten the cooperate existence of the country. Many have attributed this to environmental conditions which are mainly man made. What is the experience of Nigeria as a nation and how has the situation been managed? This paper, therefore reviews conflict, peace and security in Nigeria by examining the environmental conditions responsible, management of security issues, national security frame work put in place to address the issues and its effect.

Keywords: Conflict, Peace, Security and Development

DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/9-1-07