MARTIN LUTHER KING’S CONCEPT OF MORAL COSMOPOLITANISM: IMPLICATIONS FOR NATURAL RESOURCES’ CONFLICT IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Natural resources need not be a source of conflict. In Nigeria, conflicts and even warfare have arisen in the process of exploiting resources. No matter the regions in the country in which natural resources are found, there can be agreeable and mutually inclusive principles that can help in managing these resources to mitigate conflicts. Why is there still warfare over resources? This issue is problematized here and examined through a hermeneutic method. Then insights from Martin Luther King’s idea of moral cosmopolitanism (universal brotherhood) are used to periscope the conflict for a solution.