ARMER-HERDSMEN CRISIS IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
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The study explored the idea of the farmers herders conflict in Nigeria and analyzed the
central point liable for the conflict in Nigeria. Likewise, it examined the role of government
in addressing to the conflict and identified gaps in government reactions to the farmer
herders crises. These were with the end goal of figuring out the justifications for why
conflict management strategies employed by the government in response to the farmersherdsmen crisis have not resulted in the end of the crisis.
The study made use of both primary and secondary method of data collection. Secondary
data was sourced from course books, diary articles, the web, magazines, commission
reports and papers. For the primary data, the survey method was used which includes
investigating through the use of the questionnaire.
The result showed that environmental change, encroachment on areas of land reserved for
grazing by farmers and encroachment on farms by breeders, the proliferation of small arms
and crime in rural areas etc. are triggers of the farmers-herdsmen crisis in Nigeria. It
additionally showed that the federal government and the state government in states where
instances of the conflict have been recorded have singularly and in joint effort concoct
various explanations, approaches and activities, for example, the organization of safety
agents to networks where conflicts have happened, the introduction of a few councils fully
intent on thinking of suggestions to end the contention and the detailing of strategies
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expected to end the conflict like the prohibiting of open brushing in certain states. At last,
discoveries uncover that the disappointment of the public authority to think of preventive
measures to check the contention; unfortunate execution of figured out approaches;
nonattendance of strict resistance and political avoidance are holes in government the
executives methodologies of the farmers herders struggle in Nigeria.
The study concluded that the management structures, processes and strategies of
government in addressing the farmers-herdsmen crisis are inadequate to the extent that they
are more reactionary than preventive or proactive, have implementation lapses and are
bedevilled by political exclusion.
central point liable for the conflict in Nigeria. Likewise, it examined the role of government
in addressing to the conflict and identified gaps in government reactions to the farmer
herders crises. These were with the end goal of figuring out the justifications for why
conflict management strategies employed by the government in response to the farmersherdsmen crisis have not resulted in the end of the crisis.
The study made use of both primary and secondary method of data collection. Secondary
data was sourced from course books, diary articles, the web, magazines, commission
reports and papers. For the primary data, the survey method was used which includes
investigating through the use of the questionnaire.
The result showed that environmental change, encroachment on areas of land reserved for
grazing by farmers and encroachment on farms by breeders, the proliferation of small arms
and crime in rural areas etc. are triggers of the farmers-herdsmen crisis in Nigeria. It
additionally showed that the federal government and the state government in states where
instances of the conflict have been recorded have singularly and in joint effort concoct
various explanations, approaches and activities, for example, the organization of safety
agents to networks where conflicts have happened, the introduction of a few councils fully
intent on thinking of suggestions to end the contention and the detailing of strategies
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expected to end the conflict like the prohibiting of open brushing in certain states. At last,
discoveries uncover that the disappointment of the public authority to think of preventive
measures to check the contention; unfortunate execution of figured out approaches;
nonattendance of strict resistance and political avoidance are holes in government the
executives methodologies of the farmers herders struggle in Nigeria.
The study concluded that the management structures, processes and strategies of
government in addressing the farmers-herdsmen crisis are inadequate to the extent that they
are more reactionary than preventive or proactive, have implementation lapses and are
bedevilled by political exclusion.
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