Peace and Conflict Resolution as a Strategy for Societal Wellbeing

A Nigerian Perspective

Abstract

The paper examined the necessities and usefulness or otherwise of the employment of the tools of peace and conflict resolution as a strategy for societal wellbeing in Nigeria within the periods of pre and post Covid-19 era. This is done with a view to evaluating the efforts of government of Nigeria in resolving conflicts vis-à-vis using the tools of peace and conflict resolution as an available strategy for the benefit of her citizens. This is because the constant interaction of Nigerians at any level will definitely generate conflict since conflict is inevitable in any social milieu. Yet for the continuous sustenance of human existence, these moments of conflicts are naturally followed by moment of peace either brought about by the intervention of a third party, civil society initiatives or by the disenchantments of the parties in conflict, hence the tendency to search for a peaceful settlement of such a conflict. The study employs secondary data generated through documentary sources. The paper again adopted Relative Deprivation, Rising Expectation and Frustration-Aggression Theory as its theoretical framework.  The paper concludes that peace and conflict resolution tools remain an absolute tools for the sustenance of human existence especially in this extraordinary times of pre and post Covid-19 era when successive waves of a more contiguous variant of viral progression seems to diminish the previous efforts of government and scientists in containing the ravaging effects of the virus through vaccine production and its therapeutic use thereby constituting deadlier threats that accentuate the need for peace and conflict resolution among persons and societies.