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Nigeria is an ethnically diverse country. The country is also ‘Islamo-Christian’ implying an almost even number of Christians and Muslims living side by side. Due to its large population and diversity, major political, economic, and social issues are vigorously or violently contested along the lines of the complex ethnic, religious, and regional divisions. From colonialism and even after independence, struggles for ethnic, political, and religious legitimacy have dotted Nigeria’s conflict landscape culminating in a civil war in 1967 (amongst other violent conflagrations). The civil war marked the beginning of international humanitarian aid interventions in Nigeria. This chapter chronicles the history of Nigeria, analyzing the country’s conflict landscape and examining the dynamics which shaped humanitarian aid interventions then, and continue to manifest in humanitarian and displacement management contemporarily.
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Abdulazeez Malefakis, M. (2022). Nigeria: Conflict, Conflict Management, and Humanitarian Aid. In: Humanitarian Displacement and Boko Haram in Nigeria. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99784-7_1
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