THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF COMMUNAL CONFLICTS INVOLVING NOMADIC PASTORALISTS IN NIGERIA
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The paper examined communal conflicts involved nomadic pastoralists and the role that education can play in effective management of these conflicts. From the conflict perspective, the paper viewed communal conflict involved nomadic pastoralists as emanating from group struggle with nomads, who believed to be oppressed, marginalized and alienated. The concepts of conflict, communal conflicts and conflict management were clarified from scholarly viewed points in the paper. Also, the role of education towards effective conflict management were highlighted. The paper however concluded that many programs introduced to educate nomadic pastoralists were associated with challenges which make access to education for them still difficult and illiteracy rate very high. Therefore, the paper suggested among other things the need for adequate funding of education because underfunding has been identified as the major reason why the laudable objectives of nomadic education were not achieved as well as adequate and continuous mobilization and sensitization programs.
Keywords: Nomadic Pastoralist, RUGA, Conflict, Conflict Management, Nomadic Education
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