Contesting localisation in interfaith peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria

Roelofs, Portia

doi:10.1080/13600818.2020.1787366

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“…Studies (Tar and Shettima 2010;Onapajo 2012;Opasina 2016;Anyia 2017;Chirot 2017;Roelofs 2020) have also revealed that certain religious groups are not only resistant to democracy, but they are also hostile towards embracing democratic culture and political and social changes, especially when they consider these as threats to their religious beliefs (Anyanwu 2017;Iyekekpolo 2020;Idler and Tkacova 2023). This type of resistance has the tendency to affect and hinder a country's pathway towards democratic consolidation, peace, and development.…”

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Democracy, Peace, and Religion in Nigeria: Can Religion Be Used to Consolidate or Undermine Democracy and Peace?

Jatau,

Maza

2023

Religions

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This study looks at the relationships between religion, democracy, and peace. It is based on this premise that this article examines how religion is used to consolidate democracy and promote peace in societies, using Nigeria as its framework of analysis. Using the qualitative method of analysis where emphasis is placed on primary and secondary documents, which involve articles, reports, and newspaper articles triangulating with key informant interviews (KIIs) and stakeholder analysis, the findings of this article suggest that religion plays a significant role in the consolidation of democracy and peace given its important place in advocating some principles and ideals of democracy, which involve equity, fairness, freedom, pluralism, respect for diversities, and defending minority rights, amongst others. However, challenges associated with the weaponization of religion to pursue selfish political agenda and interests by both religious and political elites in Nigeria has become more of a norm than what is expected between both variables. This has helped in the creation of a hostile and unstable political environment, and in the pervasion of democratic and political institutions and agencies responsible for promoting accountable leadership, good governance, representative governance, political interference, and repressive policies, limiting the rights and freedoms of citizens who continue to impede the enhancement of a strongly consolidated democratic culture and peace in transition democracies such as Nigeria. This article suggests the need for relevant actors to ensure that institutions of the state are strengthened to provide the dividends of democracy. This can be achieved by addressing the challenge of the negative use of religion by the elites to advance unholy political interests and agenda. It is also important to create machinery to address the structural problems that breed poverty; political, economic, and social exclusion; and human rights abuses, limiting political and electoral freedoms. Addressing these challenges also requires relevant stakeholders and actors to understand that the process is multi-pronged, which also requires acknowledging, accommodating, and accepting individual and group diversities and, above all, requires the patience and the political will of these actors to ensure its actualization. Addressing these concerns will significantly strengthen and enhance the consolidation of democracy and peace in fragile and transition societies.

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Democracy, Peace, and Religion in Nigeria: Can Religion Be Used to Consolidate or Undermine Democracy and Peace?

Jatau,

Maza

2023

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“…Social Contract theory describes society as 'a series of social contracts between people living in the society and society itself' (Etieyibo & Omiegbe, 2020). In other words, an organisation should act in a responsible manner not because it is in its commercial interest, but because it is part of how society expects organisations to operate (Roelofs, 2020). Noronha et al (2015) used this theory to investigate CSR disclosure in Chinese railway companies which was a corporate response after a major train accident.…”

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Evaluating the Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure of Nigeria’s Most Profitable Companies

Samuel¹,

Zubairu²,

Abubakar³

2020

TIJAB

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This study evaluated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure in the most profitable companies in Nigeria, a review was carried out on the annual reports and websites of the five most profitable companies in Nigeria according to the market cap list 2018. This research focused on the quantity and quality of CSR disclosures, provided by these companies. The method of analysis used was content analysis. The result of this study revealed that from the three dimensions constituting Community disclosure, Environmental disclosure and Human Resource disclosure, Community disclosure was the most disclosed dimension from the top profitable companies in Nigeria. Findings revealed that these companies disclosed a lot about the different CSR activities they had undertaken within the span of one year, but the quality of these disclosures were relatively low. CSR disclosure should be encouraged by the Nigerian government by publicly recognizing companies who disclose CSR activity, this will motivate other companies to practice and disclose CSR.

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La visceralidad de la violencia letal. Un modelo fenomenológico del homicidio entre varones en Buenos Aires, Argentina

Marco

2023

revintsociol

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Este artículo analiza las experiencias de varones que cometieron el homicidio de otros varones en Buenos Aires, Argentina (2000-2020). Abrevando en el interaccionismo radical y los estudios sociales de las emociones, se reconstruye la dinámica situacional de la violencia letal. A partir de un diseño hermenéutico, se codificó inductivamente un corpus de 73 entrevistas narrativas a perpetradores. Se identificaron tres dimensiones (emociones, descripciones de los contrincantes y modos de experimentar a las audiencias) para analizar la construcción situacional del yo y los elementos experienciales puestos en juego. Se diagramó un modelo fenomenológico que integra estas dimensiones y se propone el concepto de visceralidad de la violencia para describir la heterogeneidad de elementos emocionales involucrados en el ejercicio de la violencia letal. El artículo discute con lecturas simplistas de la naturalización de la violencia y del honor, al realzar la sensación de inevitabilidad, amenaza y evaluación que experimentan los perpetradores.

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Contesting localisation in interfaith peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria

Cited by 3 publications

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Democracy, Peace, and Religion in Nigeria: Can Religion Be Used to Consolidate or Undermine Democracy and Peace?

Democracy, Peace, and Religion in Nigeria: Can Religion Be Used to Consolidate or Undermine Democracy and Peace?

Evaluating the Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure of Nigeria’s Most Profitable Companies

La visceralidad de la violencia letal. Un modelo fenomenológico del homicidio entre varones en Buenos Aires, Argentina

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