Ethno-religious Conflicts and Democracy in Nigeria
Author : Etannibi E. O. Alemika
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Conflict management
ISBN :
Democratization and Islamic Law
Author : Johannes Harnischfeger
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 3593382563
Book Description
When democracy was introduced to Nigeria in 1999, one-third of its federal states declared that they would be governed by sharia, or Islamic law. This work argues that such a break with secular constitutional traditions in a multireligious country can have disastrous consequences
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria
Author : Rotimi T. Suberu
Publisher : 成甲書房
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781929223282
Book Description
FOREWORD by Larry Diamond
Structural Adjustment and Ethnicity in Nigeria
Author : Eghosa E. Osaghae
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789171063731
Book Description
Understanding Modern Nigeria
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108837972
Book Description
An introduction to the politics and society of post-colonial Nigeria, highlighting the key themes of ethnicity, democracy, and development.
Creed & Grievance
Author : Abdul Raufu Mustapha
Publisher : Western Africa
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847011063
Book Description
Analyses the complexities of Christian-Muslim conflict that threatens the fragile democracy of Nigeria, and the implications for global peace and security.
World on Fire
Author : Amy Chua
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2004-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400076374
Book Description
The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free market democracy. Chua shows how in non-Western countries around the globe, free markets have concentrated starkly disproportionate wealth in the hands of a resented ethnic minority. These “market-dominant minorities” – Chinese in Southeast Asia, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America and South Africa, Indians in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia – become objects of violent hatred. At the same time, democracy empowers the impoverished majority, unleashing ethnic demagoguery, confiscation, and sometimes genocidal revenge. She also argues that the United States has become the world’s most visible market-dominant minority, a fact that helps explain the rising tide of anti-Americanism around the world. Chua is a friend of globalization, but she urges us to find ways to spread its benefits and curb its most destructive aspects.
Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa
Author : Donald S. Rothchild
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815775942
Book Description
In this book, Donald Rothchild analyzes the successes and failures of attempts at conflict resolution in different African countries and offers comprehensive ideas for successful mediation. The book demonstrates how negotiation and mediation can promote conflict resolution, along with a political environment that fosters development.
State Fragility, State Formation, and Human Security in Nigeria
Author : M. Okome
Publisher : Springer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137006781
Book Description
Since the 1990s, attempts at democratic transition have generated hopes for 'civil society' as well as ambivalence about the state. The interdisciplinary studies gathered here explore this dynamic through the complex interactions of state fragility, self-help, and self-organization in Nigeria. Nigeria stands as a particularly interesting case, as its multifaceted associational life extends far beyond civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs): as this volume reveals, there is a 'third sector' of Nigerian society encompassing everything from community self-help programs to ethno-religious affiliations to militias. Some of these formations have narrow, pragmatic aims, while others have an explicit socio-cultural or political agenda; most can be understood as compensating for the state's failure to deliver services and maintain regulatory frameworks. By examining the emergence of broader forms of civil society, this volume considers their successes while also assessing their costs and contradictions.
Violence in Nigeria
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580460521
Book Description
A comprehensive study of religious violence and aggression in Nigeria, notably its causes, consequences, and the options for conflict resolution. Violence in Nigeria is the most comprehensive study of religious violence and aggression in Nigeria, notably its causes, consequences, and the options for conflict resolution. After an analysis of the links between religionand politics, the book elaborates on all the major cases of violence in the 1980s and 90s, including the Maitatsine, Kano, Bauchi, Kaduna, and Katsina riots. Zones of religious tensions are identified, as well as general characteristics of violence in Nigeria; and issues in inter and intra-religious relations, relious organizations, and the states, and the main actors in the conflicts are explored in great detail. A product of extensive primary research, Violence in Nigeria makes a contribution to contemporary social and political history that no previous study has attempted, and it is written to appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books dealing with the history of Nigeria, its people, their religion and politics.
