Conflict Resolution Studies Faculty Articles

Future Directions for USAID Support to Conflict Mitigation in Nigeria

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2001

Publication Title

USAID

Keywords

Conflict Resolution, Nigeria

First Page

1

Last Page

73

Abstract

Nigeria, like many other countries, confronts a number of internal conflicts. Since independence in 1960 it has survived a civil war. It has also survived a series of military regimes that have exacerbated many conflicts by treating them as illegitimate dissent. Rather than working with people and groups to transform the structures, issues, and relationships that underlie those conflicts, most Nigerian military leaders sought instead to suppress the symptoms, particularly when conflicts turned violent.

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