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Pastoral conflicts and (dis)trust: Evidence from Nigeria using an instrumental variable approach
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Abstract Although the incidence of conflicts between Fulani nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers in Nigeria have risen significantly during the last decade, no study has, to the best of my knowledge, examined how these conflicts influence distrust of members of the Fulani ethnic group and the larger Mu... view more
Although the incidence of conflicts between Fulani nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers in Nigeria have risen significantly during the last decade, no study has, to the best of my knowledge, examined how these conflicts influence distrust of members of the Fulani ethnic group and the larger Muslim population, nor the conditions under which these conflicts, which are primarily about competition over land and water resources, morph into religious conflicts. Using novel survey data collected from Kaduna, the state with the third highest incidence of pastoral conflicts in Nigeria, this study fills these gaps. The regression results show that exposure to pastoral conflicts cause distrust of members of the Fulani ethnic group and Muslims; although the size of the effect is much larger for the Fulani compared to Muslims. This shows that the population in Kaduna tend to conflate the Fulani with Muslims. Religious polarization was found to catalyze the process of resource conflicts turning religious.... view less
Keywords
Nigeria; ethnic group; ethnic conflict; religious conflict; West Africa
Classification
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Free Keywords
Farmer-herder conflict; Fulani; KadunaState; Pastoral conflict; trust
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
53 p.
Series
Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Migration und Diversität, Abteilung Migration, Integration, Transnationalisierung, SP VI 2023-101
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/268676
Status
Published Version; reviewed
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