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Creed And Grievance: Musilm-Christian Relations And Conflict Resolution In Northern Nigeria

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Canflit resolution speialists and Africanists ueill be thrilled by the publication des incisive, original, and empirically ric analysts of Muslim-Christian engagements in northern Nigeria. The three chapters on conflict in the Jos Plateat are tnriualed for their analytic rigor and clarity, a truly brilliani achievenent constitnuting required reading for all serions students of confliet resobeion in Africa,’ – Paul Lubeck, Acting Director of African Studies Program and Senior Research Professor, Johns Hopkins-School of Advanced International Studies Ethnic and cultural fragmentation, the frequent overlap between ethnicity and religion, and socio-political changes fronm the 1980s have resulted in acute polarization between Muslims and Christians in northern Nigeria. This book presents an in-depth exploration of the contlicts, which both threaten the region’s development and present a wider threat to global security. Examining the multiplicity of Muslim and Christian groups involved, the tensions between and within them, and appropriate and effective policy responses at local, national and 1nternational levels, the authors also analyse three of the most contentious issues: contlict in Jos; the Boko Haram insurgency: and the challenges of legal pluralism posed by the declaration of full Sharia law m twelve Muslim majority states. Abdul Raufu Mustapha is Associate Professor in African Politics, University of Oxford. David Ehrhardt is Assistant Professor of Tuteriaional Development at Leiden University College. See ako the conpanion volume Sets & Soial Disorder. Mustim ldentities &Clet in Nirhen Nigeria, edited by Abdul Raufu Mustapha (2014)

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