Jos: Fear & Violence in central Nigeria

Authors
Publication date 2018
Host editors
  • A.R. Mustapha
  • D. Ehrhardt
Book title Creed & Grievance
Book subtitle Muslim-Christian Relations & Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria
ISBN
  • 9781847011060
  • 9781847011428
  • 9781847012197
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781787442375
  • 9781787442641
Series Western Africa series
Pages (from-to) 225-268
Publisher Woodbridge: James Currey
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract The violent politicization of religion has intermittently marked Jos, the capital of Plateau State, from 2001 to 2015. How this came to be, and how it is now gradually being overcome, is a lesson for many communities in northern Nigeria. Jos represented one of the most volatile ethno-religious conflicts in northern Nigeria. Since September 2001, there have been a series of destructive episodes of collective violence in Jos. While the rioting has not been continuous, it has divided much of the religiously plural city into Muslim and Christian areas and created a climate of fear and uncertainty
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1wx92mm
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