AMNETSY, PEACE AND JUSTICE: FINDING THE MIDDLE ROAD
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2017-09-17
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FACULTY OF LAW, AHMADU BELLO UNVERSITY
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The crisis afflicting the country range from leadership crisis, bitter and rancorous politics, unpreceded criminality and attendant insecurity, Boko Haram insurgency, kidnapping, ritual killings, human trafficking and economic crimes. The question is: Justice or Peace? Basically, that is what it boils down to. Since the beginning of the offensive by insurgents in Nigeria, there has been widespread debate about how to bring the bloody onslaught to an end. In the last administration, it seemed as if the government struggled in trying to get an upper hand in the conflict with the insurgents. Now that the new government (Buhari Administration) is in place, the problem of how to extinguish this threat has risen to the fore of the government’s urgent policy. Talk of the administration possibility offering amnesty to the insurgents in return for them to lay down their arms litters the air. However, with so many divergent voices lending themselves to the debate of whether the particular strategy developed along the lines of amnesty is appropriate given the surrounding circumstances. The general objective of this paper is to access the impacts, challenges and sustainability of the amnesty programme and the political settlement leading to it, as a strategy of conflict resolution and peace building at the sub-national level. The study attempts to critically interrogate the content and methods of the Amnesty on the basis of issues of inclusiveness, equity, justice and impacts on violence mitigation, conflict resolution and peace building, and national -building and national stability.
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A.B.U LJ VOL 37