DEMOCRATIC PEACE AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA. A STUDY ON HOW DEMOCRACY CONSTRAIN VIOLENCE IN OYO STATE.
Abstract
This study examines Democratic peace and political violence in Nigeria. A study on how
democracy constrain violence in oyo state.Democracy has many forms, and its practices and
outcomes vary from nation to nation. Nigeria, like other countries of the world, is not left out of this
sweeping wave of democratic awareness and enlargement. Elections in Nigeria have consistently
been characterized by issues from the pre- electoral activities to the electoral activities and then the
post electoral activities. Consequently, violence is usually accompanied with wanton loss of lives,
public instability, infrastructural destruction among others, while socio-economic development
contributed to the advancement an improvement in the standard of living, increase in the life
expectancy of the people, perhaps no nation can survive a test of time when it’s drown in the
menace of violence and no nation can actually develop under the prevalence of crisis, violence and
upheavals. This study examines democratic peace and political violence in Nigeria. The research
design adopted for this study is descriptive survey. Questionnaire was administered on participants
which comprised 200 people in Oyo state.
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