General Conclusion

Abstract

This dissertation, based on both the theoretical and the empirical sections, consisting of various sections and several subsections, explored two types of conflict in Nigeria to investigate the position taken that ethnicity does not lead to conflicts, unless politicized. Having discussed this basis of argumentation in most of the chapters in the dissertation, this conclusion will proceed with the argument used in the research study that conflicts are not the result of mere display of ethnicity. Rather, it will be maintained that conflicts occur only when ethnic differences are politicized by certain individuals and actors.