CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS TO PEACE BUILDING IN THE 21STCENTURY; A NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE

Anacletus, I. Ogbunkwu (2021) CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS TO PEACE BUILDING IN THE 21STCENTURY; A NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE. In: Peace and Conflict Resolution: An Anthology. Geocilia Intergrated Ltd Port Harcourt, pp. 69-82.

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Abstract

This paper investigates Nigerian experience of challenges to peacebuilding in the 21st century. Also, it exposes the prospects capable of mitigating these challenges to peacebuilding and its enablers. Using the method of exposition, the paper makes a thorough investigation on the dimensions of challenges to peacebuilding in the 21st century and by method of hermeneutics, the paper argues and analysis prospects capable of enabling peacebuilding in the 21st century. Towards addressing the aim, the paper exposes the challenges to peacebuilding as follows: guerrilla wars, inter-tribal/communal war, insurgency of Boko-Haram, herdsmen-farmers conflict, inter and intra-religious conflicts, political crisis before, during and after elections, domestic violence, banditry, lawlessness, crimes such as robbery, kidnapping, abuse of the mass media especially facebook; whatsapp; telegram, e.t.c. Unfortunately, this distressed condition threatens national and international security, world socio-political and economic life, dehumanization and lost of cultural values and human lives. In spite of these challenges, the investigation shows that peacebuilding in Nigeria can be possible minding the following prospects: winning peace not winning war, abating challenges of globalization through adequate information and communication technology, contemporary peace operations, dialogue, involvement of traditional and religious institutions in matters of peace and reconciliation, discouraging government actions that fuel crisis, promoting justice and rule of law, e.t.c. The implication of the study is that when the said prospects are sincerely applied, the bites and challenges to peacebuilding would be adequately arrested, hence they can be said to be square pegs in square holes. Therefore, the paper makes a clarion call to invest pricelessly in the prospects as stated in order to mitigate challenges to peacebuilding in the 21st century

Item Type: Book Section
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Faculty of Law > Faculty of Management and Social Sciences > Faculty of Education
Depositing User: mrs chioma hannah
Date Deposited: 17 Sep 2025 21:51
Last Modified: 17 Sep 2025 21:51
URI: http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/5539

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