Creed & Grievance
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A32=Adam Higazi
A32=Aminu Gamawa
A32=David Ehrhardt
A32=Jibrin Ibrahim
A32=Jimam Lar
A32=Karel Chromy
A32=Kate Meagher
A32=Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha
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Boko Haram insurgency
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Creed & Grievance: Muslim-Christian Relations & Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria
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Democracy
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Ethnic diversity
Global peace and security
Inequalities
Informal economy
Informal institutions
Insecurity
Jos
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Legal pluralism
Muslim-Christian conflict
Nigeria
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Peace-building
Policy responses
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Sharia law
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- ISBN 9781847011060
- Weight: 766g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jan 2018
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Analyses the complexities of Christian-Muslim conflict that threatens the fragile democracy of Nigeria, and the implications for global peace and security.
In northern Nigeria, high levels of ethnic diversity have coincided with acute polarization between Muslims and Christians, increasingly fuelling violent conflict. The climate of insecurity threatens northern Nigeria's development, accentuates the inequalities between it and the rest of the country, and undermines the attempt to stabilize democracy in the country. Externally, fears have also been expressed that Islamist movements in northern Nigeria form part of a wider network constituting a threat to global peace and security.
Refuting a "clash of civilizations" between Muslims and Christians, the authors of this new study highlight the multiplicity of Muslim and Christian groups contending for influence and relevance, and the doctrinal, political and historical drivers of conflict and violence between and within them. They analyse three of the most contentious issues: the conflicts in Jos; the Boko Haram insurgency; and the challenges of legal pluralism posed by the declaration of full Sharia law in 12 Muslim majority states. Finally, they suggest appropriate and effective policy responses at local, national and international levels, discussing the importance of informal institutions as avenues for peace-building and the complementarities between local and national dynamics in the search for peace.
Abdul Raufu Mustapha is Associate Professor in African Politics, University of Oxford.
David Ehrhardt is Assistant Professor of International Development at Leiden University College.
Companion volume: Sects & Social Disorder: Muslim Identities &Conflict in Northern Nigeria edited by Abdul Raufu Mustapha (James Currey 2014)
Nigeria: Premium Times Books
ABDUL RAUFU MUSTAPHA wasAssociate Professor in African Politics, University of Oxford prior to his death in 2017. His books include Turning Points in African Democracy (2010), Sects and Social Disorder (2014) and, edited with David Ehrhardt, Creed & Grievance (2018). ABDUL RAUFU MUSTAPHA wasAssociate Professor in African Politics, University of Oxford prior to his death in 2017. His books include Turning Points in African Democracy (2010), Sects and Social Disorder (2014) and, edited with David Ehrhardt, Creed & Grievance (2018). Adam Higazi holds a Research Fellowship in the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam and is a Research Scholar, Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Nigeria. Jibrin Ibrahim is a Senior Fellow with the Centre for Development, CDD, where he had earlier served as Director. Ibrahim has lectured, published and consulted extensively on democratisation and governance in Africa. KATE MEAGHER is Associate Professor in Development Studies, London School of Economics. Her books include Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria (2010), and, co-edited with Abdul Raufu Mustapha, Overcoming Boko Haram: Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria (2020).
