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Analysis of options for managing democratic ethnic competition and conflicts: the Nigerian experience

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  • Imuetinyan Festus

    (University of Benin, Nigeria)

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Ethnicity has been constructively attacked from the perspective of conflict management and constitutional engineering within several countries in Africa. African leaders have recognized the problem of ethnicity and have sought to address it through many and varied schemes. This paper analyses some of these devices that address democratic ethnic competition and conflicts. The transformation of ethnicity in Nigeria has been enhanced by a variety of ethnic management constitutional devices. Several options (de jure or de facto) to operate multi-ethnic democracy have been tried in Nigeria. Among which includes federalism, tenure limit, geo-political zoning and rotation of power, constitutionally prescribed party systems and electoral systems. The finding is that these practices have been efficacious in mitigating the intense ethnic conflict that has dominated Nigerian politics since independence. They permit the expression of ethnic differences in constructive ways, thus making Nigeria, a good example in the management of democratic ethnic competition and conflicts.

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  • Imuetinyan Festus, 2015. "Analysis of options for managing democratic ethnic competition and conflicts: the Nigerian experience," Journal of Developing Areas, Tennessee State University, College of Business, vol. 49(2), pages 263-272, April-Jun.
    • Handle: RePEc:jda:journl:vol.49:year:2015:issue2:pp:263-272
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    Keywords

    zoning; plurality; instability; privatization;
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    JEL classification:

    • Z18 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Public Policy
    • Y80 - Miscellaneous Categories - - Related Disciplines - - - Related Disciplines
    • H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism

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