GEOLOCATION – THE EFFECT OF RELOCATION ON CONFLICT

Mavalla, Ayuba Gimba

Peace and Conflict Studies in Department of Political Science & Public Administration

School of Veronica Adeleke of Social Science

Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State

Email: Mavallaa@babcock.edu.ng

Abstract: The proliferations of academic literature on theories that adequately captured the causes, nature and the categories of conflict has left a gap, the absence of a theory that sufficiently explain the dynamics of conflict that are motivated by a divide of dwelling place, which provide a potential for violence between dwelling places. The possibility of people who are at each other throat could adjust to bury their historical enmity and their differences, but collaborate to fight those they separated their dwelling places. The conflict that arises from these two different locations often defies the conventional ties such as ethnicity, religious affiliation, and even blood relations. The paper is multi-disciplinary, employing qualitative research methodology. The discipline is Peace and Conflict Studies. The sources will include: interviews, internet, and library resources, personal and historical events. Historically, the paper made reference to violent conflict between the ten Northern tribes and the two Southern tribes of Israel. The second historical sources is the segregation between the British Colonial officials those heading to the Northern Protectorate and the ones going to the Colony and the Southern Protectorate. The potential for conflict transformation for historical enemies to be reconciled with one another as a result of living in the same geographical location is fascinating. The evidence present and assessed in this paper suggests that the understanding of the dynamics played by geo-location factor could help in transforming violent conflict.

Keywords: Geo-Location, Conflict, Ethnicity, Protectorate, Mediation

Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Mavalla, Ayuba Gimba (2016), Geolocation – The Effect of Relocation on Conflict. J. of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Vol. 8, Number 2, Pp. 87-100.