ABSTRACT
Nigeria is a multi –
ethnic country which means that, there are diversified interests of individual
due to differences in tribes, culture and religion. It is hard for each
individual with a religious consciousness to respect the interest of the other
since the other might force such interest on the former. However, religious
conflict was never known in history, since each country is still battling with
it. Hence, killings and destruction of lives and properties are still on-
going. We therefore need to find a solution to it in all the ramifications,
either politically, socially, religiously or economically in as much as the
society is based on all these factors. This work will be carried out using
analytic and descriptive method and recommends that human life and sanctity of
life should be respected, each religion should value and respect human life
because lives are precious and should not be taken by anyone.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER
ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1.0
Introduction
1.1
Background to the study
1.2
Statement of the problem
1.3
Aims and objective
1.4
Scope and limitation
1.5
Research methodology
1.6
Definition of terms
1.7
Conclusion
Endnotes
CHAPTER
TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.0
Introduction
2.1
Literature review
2.2
Conclusion
Endnotes
CHAPTER
THREE: RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN NIGERIA
3.0
Introduction
3.1
Religious conflicts in General
3.2
Religious conflict in Nigeria
3.3
Conclusion
Endnotes
CHAPTER
FOUR: TOWARDS A SOLUTION
4.0
Introduction
4.1
Religious conflict in Nigeria and its solution
4.2
Conclusion
Endnotes
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, RECOMMENDATION AND
CONCLUSION
5.1
Summary
5.2
Recommendation
5.3
Conclusion
Bibliography
CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL
INTRODUCTION
1.0 Introduction
Many
will attest to it that the Jos crisis vividly exemplifies or by locus classicus
describes a rancorous experience against religious intolerance. In a nation
bound with vast geographic and vast ethnic and religious differences, these
religious differences aid conflict which is a basis for showing religious biases
and prejudices with the adherents being too fundamentalistic and extremistic in nature.
Naturally,
the psycho-social description of man shows him as genetically selfish, fighting
for his own interest alone. However, this does not necessarily explain or
construe the religious nature of man. With various descriptions of the
religious nature of man
especially Africans, Mbiti have described him as ‘notoriously
religious’.1 Maybe
this can adequately give a hypothesis for action that is behind religious
conflict in Nigeria. But how rational or how plausible is it for two notable
religions to fight against each other, killing and giving a psychological
aftermath or psycho-negative effect since God can neither be described as a
Christian nor a Muslim?
However,
the underlying principle for religious conflict is not purely religious but
also political as we have seen in the last six years with the encounter with
the Islamic fundamentalist known as Boko Haram.
The episodes of mass killing structured or engineered by this extremism
is enormous. However, all written above has not defined what religious conflict
is but has only given us an introduction to what the researcher tends to
discuss.