Nigerian Civil War Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: A Philosopher’s Evaluation

Abstract

Using a qualitative research method, this paper evaluates Nigerian civil war post-conflict
peacebuilding. It highlights that the reason for the unsuccessful implementation of the policy
of reintegrating the victims of the war is the underlying factor for the consequent agitations for
separation and protests in the country. The monstrous misconception of the state and its arrogation
of, using the words of Akinwale, “ubiquity, omniscience and omnipotence” to itself has made
the state, its institutions and its functionaries unaccountable to the citizens, thereby, leading to
citizens without sovereignty. The negligence of this fact and the Nigerian state’s jackboot approach
towards maintaining peace and post-conflict peacebuilding will only elicit more agitations for
separation and protests.