TRADITIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN IGBO LAND AS AN APPROACH FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT

ANICHE, ALEXANDER (2008) TRADITIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN IGBO LAND AS AN APPROACH FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT. Nigerian Journal of Social Development, 7 (1). pp. 61-71. ISSN 0189-5958

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Abstract

Man’s nature and his assignment compel cooperation and concerted application of both tangible and intangible resources at all levels of human association. Man in society therefore is by his nature, victim of inter—personal relatedness. According to Chukwudozie (2000) “man receives the first consciousness of himself as a being in relation to the physical universe, in relation to the various aspects of the created order but especially in relation to other person”. Thus man is never a solitary being. Hence there is a common saying that “No man is an Island”. Actually, man is a being endowed with a gift of relationship with others. Although he is an individual being, at the same time has innate push to relate to others. He yearns for union with fellow human being. Hence man’s existence in the world is essentially to co — exist with others. Bradley (1996) talks of this basic constitutive state of man as a being with others. For him Man is ontologically constituted in such a way that he is especially related. Man is therefore, a social being. The world is the world he shares and inhabits with other people. This sharing ushers in rules and code of conducts, and assigns roles and responsibilities to people in their social contact with one another”. Therefore, it is peculiar for man to act with other men to get his needs satisfied. Without this capacity, he should not be referred to as human being. The individual apart from the community is not anything real. In fact, man’s social nature cannot be over — emphasized. Hence every situation of conflict is settled in human society. Conflict is endemic in all human environments. It however varies in forms and intensity, from places to places and from time to time. According to Ezeani (2000) “Human societies at various stages of their development have been characterized by diverse forms of conflicts”. Conflicts in its different forms are therefore an omnipresent fact of human existence.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Management and Social Sciences
Depositing User:	mrs chioma hannah
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2019 11:23
Last Modified:	24 Sep 2019 14:24
URI:	http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/2075

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