BENUE VALLEY JOURNAL OF HERDER-FARMER CRISIS

Abstract

Violence has the chance of escalating whenever the parties involved attain extreme ideologies and have access to weapons. Several crises in the world started with unabated localised violence.This violence becomes sustained when political powers are used against one group as opposed to other groups. The violence can take a new turn of sustenance whenever religion and ethnic cognitions and colorations are given to the crises. This study focuses on the theoretical construct of radicalisation of pastoralists and farmers in sustained violence in Nigeria. The variables of access to weapons, political power, economic interest, religious bigotry and ethnic chauvinism are related together to see how violence becomes radicalised using the violence between pastoralists and farmers in Nigeria as a case study. The game theory and tyre burning