De-Escalation Archives - Page 42 of 56

Peace Practitioners Reject Nigeria’s Break-up, Confront Startling Figures of Havoc

Posted By: adminon: January 19, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: Boko Haram insurgency, INGO, Middle Belt Region, Modibbo Adama University of Technology - Yola, NGOs, SALWsNo CommentsViews:

Search for Common Ground, a leading conflict transformation and peacebuilding INGO, today opened what is bound to be a site of diverse interventions in the herders-farmers conflict raging in... Read more

One Example of How to Handle Herdsmen Violence

Posted By: adminon: January 17, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: Governance, Jigawa State Government, Kiri-Kasama, Leadership, PowerNo CommentsViews:

Is there nowhere in contemporary Nigeria with a story of successful containment of herdsmen violence? Would it not make eminent sense to relate to such a story in the context of current conc... Read more

Division, Stalemate Dodge De-escalation of Benue Killings

Posted By: adminon: January 17, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: Emir of Kano, NPC, NPN, Sultan of Sokoto, Sunday PunchNo CommentsViews:

Visible actions of the federal authority to douse the anger and corrosive criticism that followed the latest round of herdsmen violence in Nigeria’s Benue State are producing noticeable divi... Read more

Make a Choice on Herdsmen Crisis – Says Meg Otanwa, Nollywood Actress to President Buhari

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: 'Food Basket of the Nation', C-in-C, Fulani, NollywoodNo CommentsViews:

The flood gate of condemnation, protests, suggestions and advice on containing herdsmen violence is not about to narrow yet. One more open letter is shooting in the direction of President Mu... Read more

Northern Intelligentsia Writes President Buhari on Herdsmen Violence, Offers 10 Suggestions

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: 1977 Constituent Assembly, Kannywood, Katsina State Government, Miyetti Allah, NollywoodNo CommentsViews:

It was predictable that the last had not been heard on the contentious issue of the causes and solutions to the phenomenon of herdsmen violence in Nigeria. The country is now hearing from a... Read more

Is Nigeria’s Wave of Violence Coordinated or Coincidental?

Posted By: adminon: January 05, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: FCT, Surveillance, TrackingNo CommentsViews:

Does a central element tie together the wave of violence that greeted the new year in Nigeria or they just happened within the same time frame? In other words, is this government being sabot... Read more

The Republic of Anarchy Called Central African Republic, (CAR)

Posted By: adminon: December 23, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: MSFNo CommentsViews:

When the late Prof Ali Mazrui once suggested a process by which African superpowers could enforce peace on the continent, fellow African scholars mauled him no end. If he were still alive an... Read more

Kaduna and the Paradox of a Centenary

Posted By: adminon: December 17, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Cross Rivers State of Nigeria, DNA, Grand Durbar, Rotation of power principle, SOKAPUNo CommentsViews:

Kaduna, the historic city upon which sat the seat of government of what used to be Northern Nigeria until the series of creation of states in the country is in the news in a paradoxical way.... Read more

ANC and Africa’s Development Crisis: Who is the Next South African Leader?

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: AGRA, ANC, APC, AU, NEPAD, olusegun Obasanjo, PDP, RDP, Thabo Mbeki, The New York TimesNo CommentsViews:

It is a typically distressing but frank portrait of Africa. It goes as follows: “If potential were edible, Africa would have the best-fed people on earth. The vast continent has 60% of the w... Read more

Nigeria: APC and PDP Punch Each Other

Posted By: adminon: December 11, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: APC, PDPNo CommentsViews:

Inter-party relationship went very low this weekend in Nigeria as both the ruling party – the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the opposition People’s Democratic Party, (PDP)... Read more