Anacletus, I. Ogbunkwu (2022) GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP WITH TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONS AS DESIDERATUM FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN NIGERIA. Thinkers journal: A Journal of the Faculty of Arts, 1. pp. 31-43.
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This paper argues why government partnership with the traditional institutions is a desideratum for peace and conflict resolution in Nigeria. Using the method of hermeneutics, the paper critically examines and compares the government agencies and traditional institutions in matters of peace and conflict resolution to discover that there is urgent need for partnership to achieve the desired goal. Towards addressing the aim, the paper studies the meaning of conflict as a social situation in which a minimum of two actors or parties strive to acquire at the same time an available set of scarce resources. Also, the paper studies the role of the government and her agencies in matters of conflict management side by side with the traditional institutions. The study inquires into the activities of government officials/stakeholders to understand how they take advantage of crisis situations to promote their political interest either by instigating or fueling already existing crisis. In the same vain, government agencies such as the police and army end up with human abuse, brutality, arbitrary killings, sexual violence, while the judiciary hang up matters for years without judgment. On the other hand, the traditional institutions are made up of elders, chiefs, priests, priestesses, secret cult etc in whom the local communities repose great trust and confidence for peace and conflict resolution. The implication of this study is that the failure of the government institutions in matters of peace and conflict resolution has become so deplorable that there is urgent need for partnership with traditional institutions as a desideratum towards achieving the desired peace and co-existence in Nigeria.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Faculty of Law > Faculty of Management and Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | mrs chioma hannah |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jun 2026 07:44 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jun 2026 07:44 |
| URI: | http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/5786 |
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