RELIGION AND THE POLITICS OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND COEXISTENCE

Abstract

Security is driven towards the values of peace, and the peace is the product of religious, Smoral, political, ethnics and cultural convictions that are based on the values of development courses: love, justice, freedom and truth. With this conviction the paper is aimed at the consideration of the religiosity of the human person and the values for peaceful coexistence in relation to the realization of national security. It is based on the understanding that one's religious convictions and the morality of peace that will foster national security, and help to fights the imposing and growing reality of insecurity being occasioned by religious and ethnic bigotries and sectionalism. With recent social, religious and political happenings, especially in the name of religious violence and intolerance, there are urgent needs to reassess the meaning, natures and the significance of religion as we civilise and socialise in our contemporary society that has been bedevilled with conflicting and non-internalised religious interests. The paper revealed that proper placing of the socio-philosophical nature of religion is necessary to understand properly the human persons as subjects of lived experiences by defining human histories, moralities and cultures in relations with the divinity. By so doing, it will engender communitarian living and gesture that are jelled toward its happy end. Adopting the phenomenological method of analysis, the paper concludes that the interactive nature of the human persons as participatory agents of development visibly in their politics of values and processes should be properly oriented to enhance development courses for the attainment of national security