Federal Success in Nigeria: State-Building and Ethnic Conflict Managment

Managing Ethnic Conflict for Nation Building: A Comparative Study between Malaysia and Nigeria

In several post-colonial countries, nation building has been regarded as one of the most important tasks since World War II. Globally, all aim to achieve unity and harmony among ethnic groups. This effort is not an easy task because of the characteristics of a third world country itself is colored by ethnic diversity. In some countries, the government's efforts to unite the nation face failure ...

Ethnic Conflict, the State and Tsunami Disaster in Sri Lanka

Developments in Sri Lanka after the Tsunami disaster of December 26, 2004 have intensified the country’s prolonged political crisis. This deepening crisis is exemplified in the continuing debate concerning the inconclusive efforts being made by the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to find a framework of cooperation to obtain and utilise international assis...

Democracy, Violent Conflict and National Development in Nigeria

There seems to be a debate on the validity of democratic peace theory. Whilst, some scholars and schools of thought have argued that democracy engenders peace, others have argued exactly the opposite. In the Nigerian context, democracy appears to have been characterized by violence, this paper examines democracy and violent conflicts and in origins and its implications for development with a pa...

Ethnic Mobilization, Equality and Conflict in Multi-ethnic States

Ethnic conflict without ethnic groups: a study

Despite growing awareness of the limitations of group-level analyses in ethnic studies, research on ethnic conflict has paid virtually no systematic attention to variation at the individual or micro level. Addressing that gap, the present paper draws upon data from interviews conducted with members of two broadly-defined categories recently arrived in the Republic of Ireland, Muslims and Nigeri...