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This chapter explains the concept of national integration and delves into how national integration measures that suit peculiar cases of countries have been adopted by them. The chapter did not shy away from ethnic and religious violence because these and violence in any form are indications that the integration of any state is threatened. Therefore, the chapter first delves into ethnicity and religion as two major root causes of violence in different countries.

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Faluyi, O. (2023). National Integration in Perspective. In: National Integration and Rotational Presidency in Nigeria. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41241-7_3

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