The Role of African Traditional Religion in Conflict Management in Nigeria
Abstract:
Religion has been observed to be a very strong factor of conflict in contemporary Africa. Many religious crises and those with religious undertone pervade the African continent and happen on high frequency with high proportion of cataclysmic consequences across the states of Africa, for instance, Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, Al-Shabab religious violence in Somalia, Kenya and Eritrea, as well as religious crisis in Sudan. Notwithstanding the potency of religion for conflict creation, religion can still be exploited to be positively functional and beneficial as well as useful for conflict management process in Africa. This work, from the prism of qualitative analytical approach, offers to explore the character and doctrine of African Traditional Religion (ATR) as they are advantageous and essential for conflict prevention, conflict resolution, conflict transformation and peacebuilding in Nigeria. The paper suggests, among other things, a social re-engineering of communitarian ethos as promoted by the African belief system. This is believed to encourage and ensure more peaceful and harmonious coexistence among different societies of the Nigerian state. Data for this work are collected from books, journal articles, newspapers, and other relevant historical documents.
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Journal of Living Together, 6 (1), pp. 246-258, 2019, ISSN: 2373-6615 (Print); 2373-6631 (Online).
@Article{Akano2019
Title = {The Role of African Traditional Religion in Conflict Management in Nigeria }
Author = {Ezekiel Kehinde Akano and Jacob Olusola Bamigbose}
Url = {https://icermediation.org/african-traditional-religion-and-conflict-management/}
ISSN = {2373-6615 (Print); 2373-6631 (Online)}
Year = {2019}
Date = {2019-12-18}
Journal = {Journal of Living Together}
Volume = {6}
Number = {1}
Pages = {246-258}
Publisher = {International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation}
Address = {Mount Vernon, New York}
Edition = {2019}.