Crisis of Belonging and Ethnographies of Peacebuilding in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Benjamin Maiangwa teaches conflict negotiation and ethics at the Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology (MITT) and Indigenous peacebuilding and intercultural communication at the University of Manitoba.

The most outstanding contribution of the book is that it enables the people to tell their own stories of the crisis in southern Kaduna as they experience the situations. The people are also given the opportunity of sharing information about their local peacebuilding efforts, strategies and coping mechanisms. Those managing the problem are now given better perspectives for packaging context specific interventions, which also holds potential to inform future research planning in Peace and Conflict Studies.

• Introduction: Setting the Scene Chapter One: The Nature of Group Identities and Conflicts in Kaduna Chapter Two: The Crisis of Belonging in Kaduna Chapter Three: The Complementarity of Group Relations in Southern Kaduna Chapter Four: People’s Ethnographies of Peacebuilding