EDUCATION FOR PEACE-BUILDING IN NIGERIA

Abstract

This paper discussed education for peace building in Nigeria. It attempted to see how education can facilitate peace building in Nigeria for national development. Definitions of education and its impact on the life of the students after schooling were considered. This was to be a factor that will enable the individual to maintain peace, which is a way of being in agreement with one’s environment at all levels. The paper revealed that living in accord with one another will foster growth and development. Signs of lack of peace in Nigeria were identified as cultism in schools, kidnapping, Boko Haram insurgency and human trafficking among others. Agencies of education like home/family, schools, club/societies, the church/mosque, peer group, government, social media and the community were encouraged to be up and doing in propagating values that will build mutual co-existence in Nigeria. It was later recommended that government should pay more attention to job creation, on-going formation or more awareness programs and careful selection of leaders to ascertain peace building, while at the individual level; the focus should be on togetherness for progress. Phenomenological method of research was used for the purpose of this study.