期刊名称：Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review
电子版ISSN：2223-5833
出版年度：2015
卷号：4
期号：6
出版社：Sohar University, Oman and American University of Kuwait
摘要：There is scarcely any community in Nigeria which has not been involved in boundary and communal disputes. Boundaries are made for human beings and should therefore be made for human convenience and not conflicts. However, boundary issues in our society today are treated as matters of life and death. Family/boundary and communal conflicts in Nigeria are as result of competit ion over access to land and other natural resources in different parts of the country. Most of these conflicts are unnecessary in that they can be resolved if the groups in conflict wish to find a solution. There are some traditional institutions to settle disputes and resolve conflict, but they are facing unprecedented challenges and quite new types of issue. The Ezza - Ezillo communal conflict presents these challenges and issues. Prolonged land dispute between the communities led to the loss of 150 lives i n 2010 forcing the state government to sack everybody from the disputed land bringing relative peace to the area. Children between the ages of three to five and women were among the victims of the attack and the head of crimes of a police station was also killed. This study discusses the human cost of communal conflict in Ebonyi State between 2008 - 2010 . to achieve this objective, the first and second sections of the paper addresses conceptual and theoretical issues. The next segment explores the major cause s of communal conflicts by drawing inferences from order case studies. The final part offers recommendations and concludes the paper.
关键词：Communal Conflict; Historical Materialism; Violence; Ezza ; - ; Ezillo; Infrastructure ; and Super structure
