Pax Nigeriana: Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation after Boko Haram, SOAS
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 21/05/2015

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This event titled "Pax Nigeriana: Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation after Boko Haram" was held at SOAS, University of London on 19 May 2015.

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As Nigeria prepares for the inauguration of a new President, Muhammadu Buhari, one of the biggest challenges ahead of the new government is that of post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation. The United Nations High Commission for Human rights confirmed that since the Boko Haram uprising in 2009, when the sect resorted to wanton violence, an estimated 15,000 people have been killed — including ‘‘countless’’ children and women, some of whom were forced into aiding the violence. In Nigeria, particularly around the northeastern region, many communities have been destroyed, thousands of people being forced to live as refugees within their own country, in camps, and mutual distrust between erstwhile neighbours now reigns in this part of the country.