CONFLICT PREVENTION THROUGH PEACEBUILDING AMONG AGRARIAN COMMUNITIES

Abstract

This study highlights a concise steps to preventing conflict among agrarian community, using the principle of a peace building as a measure to forestall occurrences of conflict majorly among farmers. It aims to defining the term conflict, conflict prevention and atypical agrarian community; identify the importance and types of conflict in an agrarian community, explicit the processes of peace building in an agrarian community and give a classical strategy applicable to preventing conflicts in rural community through the process of peace building. The study identifies and explain types of conflict in agrarian community as pastoral-agricultural conflict / crop farmers-herdsmen conflict, town-country conflict, inter family and inter-clan-conflict, conflict of wages, and conflict of land and person-person conflict. It explains the concept of peace building and the process involved in building peace. The study concluded with a concise strategy for peace building and recommended the adoption of the method and process as explained taking into consideration the activities of spoilers and their proper handling.