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Connecting Religious Conflicts and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) in Nigeria

Gwamna Dogara Je’adayibe, Dept of Religious Studies, University of Jos, Nigeria

The last few decades have witnessed increased phenomenon of refugee problem worldwide. This has been fuelled by incessant wars, famine, epidemics, etc. By the early 1990s, there were close to 7 million refugees in Africa. The number has increased tremendously since then. The United Nations estimated that there were 30 million designated as “internally displaced people”, individuals who had been forced from homes within the boundaries of their own countries. They have become “exiles in their own home.”
Nigeria has witnessed several religiously induced crises in the last thirty years that have led to loss of lives and property. People have either abandoned their own homes or sought refuge in the so-called safe havens, while some have been reduced to squatters. Farm lands are abandoned, just as women and children are left to bear the brunt of the devastating effects. This paper intends to investigate the various religious crises in Nigeria since 1980 and how they have impacted negatively in the Nigerian state particular reference to the creation of internally displaced persons.

 

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