SYNOPSIS OF CAUSE OF CONFLICT IN NIGERIA

In this analysis, conflict is an integral part of the society’s structure and organisation. The entire arrangement of the society defines its problems. The society defines its problems. The society is not different from its economic and political structure. A society where there are much vices as corruption, injustice, diseases, exploitation, inequality and nepotism. Conflict can derive their source from such societal arrangement.

In this structure, all major institutions, laws and traditions in the society are created to support those who have traditionally been in power, or groups that perceived to be superior in the society. Anything that resist the control of the elite will likely be considered ‘deviant’ or morally reprehensible. Some scholars draw their propagation of this analysis on the class denomination perspective as the negative impact of capitalism regarded as a catalyst for exploitation of the masses.

Thus, such exploitation of the peasant workers (proletariat) by the rich employees (bourgeoisie) escalates tension under capitalism and creates conflict. The solution is that contradiction will result in war situations through revolutions or any violence that can lead to overthrow of exploitative regimes, but literally, let’s advocate for reforms that can liberalise the society’s structural defects.

In other words, the structure of social conflict in Nigeria resulted due to the struggle for the allocation or distribution of the society’s acquisitions or resources. The society can be individual, communal, national or international. Struggle or conflict in this distribution, is caused by inequity in the allocation of such resources.

Disequilibrium often can lead to conflict when the exploited discovers that he is exploited, he fights for his right. Thus, structural conflict arises because for both the exploiter and exploited, no one wants to be displace from one’s original state without struggle for it.

Structurally, conflict can also be externally or internally motivated. Internally motivated change can be caused by social encounter which can be seen “as opportunities for learning, growth and development and capable of teaching the construction of new, flexible attitudes, cultures and structures.”

But externally driven changes are usually based on assumptions that social, economic, cultural or political situation have problem that “need to be dealt with by imposing new, radically different ones”. Good example of this is the widely colonialism by the colonised people. Often transformations can bring changes, but are resisted because the value system are opposed to change.