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Proclivity to Genocide
Northern Nigeria Ethno-Religious Conflict, 1966 to Present
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2014
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This book examines proclivity to genocide in the protracted killings that have continued for decades in the northern Nigeria ethno-religious conflict, spanning from the 1966 northern Nigeria massacres of thousands of Ibos up to the present, ongoing killings between extremist Muslims and Christians or non-Muslims in the region. It explores the ethnic and religious dimensions of the conflict over five phases to investigate genocidal proclivity to the killings and the extent to which religion foments and escalates the conflict.
This book adopts a conceptual analytic approach of establishing similarity of genocidal patterns to the northern Nigeria ethno-religious conflict by examining genocidal occurrences and massacres in history, particularly the twentieth-century contemporary genocides, for an understanding of genocide. With this reference frame, the study structures a Genocide Proclivity Model for identifying inclinations to genocide and derives a substantive theory using the Strauss and Corbin (1990) approach.
By identifying genocidal intent as underlying the various manifestations and causes of genocide in specific genocide cases, the book establishes that genocidal proclivity or the intent to exterminate the “other” on the basis of religion and/or ethnicity underlies most of the northern Nigerian episodic, but protracted, killings. The book’s analytic framework and approach are grounded in identifiable and provable evidences of specific intent to annihilate the “other,” mostly involving extremist Muslimsintent to‘cleanse’ northern Nigeria of Christians and other non-Muslims through the ‘exclusionary ideology’ of imposition of the Sharia Law, and to ‘force assimilation’ or ‘extermination’ through massacres and genocidal killings of those who refuse to assimilate or adopt the Muslim ideology. The study establishes that the genocidal inclinations to the conflict have remained latent because of the intermittent but protracted nature of the killings and lends credence to the conception of genocidal intent and its covertness in situations of genocidal intermittency. The book unearths the latency of episodic genocide in the northern Nigeria ethno-religious conflict, prescribes recommendations, and launches a clarion call for international intervention to stop the genocide.
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Edition
1/2014
Copyright Year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-9116-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-9117-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
275
Product Type
Monograph
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List of Tables No access
List of Figures No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Historical Background to Northern Nigeria Ethno-Religious Conflict No access
Chapter Two: Understanding the Conceptual Framework of Genocide No access
Chapter Three: Theoretical Framework of Nigeria’s Ethno-Religious Conflict No access
Chapter Four: Presenting the Model for Proclivity to Genocide No access
Chapter Five: Proclivity to Genocide in Northern Nigeria Phase I No access
Chapter Six: Proclivity to Genocide in Northern Nigeria Phase II No access
Chapter Seven: Proclivity to Genocide in Northern Nigeria Phase III No access
Chapter Eight: Proclivity to Genocide in Northern Nigeria Phase IV No access
Chapter Nine: Proclivity to Genocide in Northern Nigeria Phase V No access
Chapter Ten: Bases of Proclivity to Genocide in Northern Nigeria No access
Chapter Eleven: Religious Underpinnings in Nigeria’s Ethno-Religious Conflict No access
Chapter Twelve: Challenges, Prospects, and Prescriptive Recommendations No access
Appendixes No access Pages 229 - 230
Appendix A: Maps of Nigeria No access Pages 231 - 238
Appendix B: Selected Cases of Religious Crises in Northern Nigeria from 1980 to 2009 No access Pages 239 - 246
