Pastoralist-Farmer Conflicts in Nigeria: A Human Displacement Perspective

The book explores the linkages between pastoralist-farmer conflicts, conflict management, vulnerability, displacement, government capacity, and the role of local and international agencies in Nigeria. It highlights the displacement and protection issues caused by conflict and the efforts of stakeholders to address them. It examines conflict management mechanisms and their impact on IDP protection and emphasizes the importance of IDP involvement in conflict resolution.

Format: Hardback
Length: 234 pages
Publication date: 26 September 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pastoralist-farmer conflicts are a persistent and perennial type of conflict in Africa, and this book provides an in-depth analysis of these conflicts and their linkages with conflict management and resolution, vulnerability and displacement, government capacity and deficits, and the role of local and international governmental and non-governmental agencies in the specific Nigerian context. Conflict-induced displacement generates humanitarian and protection issues, particularly when the government is unwilling to carry out its responsibility of protecting the civilians in flight. The book fills the intellectual vacuum created on the implications the conflict management mechanisms adopted in resolving pastoralist-farmer conflict have on the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs). It extensively describes the displacement and associated risks and vulnerabilities of IDPs arising from the conflict and the efforts of the different stakeholders in responding to the protection issues. It examines various conflict management mechanisms adopted by stakeholders in resolving pastoralist-farmer conflict and how they have affected the protection of IDPs. It also elucidates the imperativeness of internally displaced persons involvement in the management/resolution processes of pastoralist-farmer conflict, which will not only impact the resolution of the conflict but also provide opportunity for their issues of protection to be addressed.

Weight: 506g
Dimension: 159 x 235 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786614575