CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND THE CHURCH (A CASE STUDY OF ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF ENUGU)

📄 Project Abstract

Human society is constantly fraught with struggle, fighting, squabble and crime as emphasized by Igbo (2001). Each section of the social stratification at one time or the other complains of being marginalized, deprived of their basic right and therefore seek for redress. In advanced societies, series of ways for seeking redress over human right violation abound and each when properly adhered to attract the attention of the authority. As such, social conflict could be said to have been checkmated to an extent in advanced society, (Neuman: 2008). However Okwueze (2004) noted that, in the African setting majority of social restiveness account for the constant total conflicts experienced in the form of civil war and community crises. Best (2009) noted that an overview of the causes of these constant conflicts in our society suggests that human society hardly will ever exist without conflict. Hence the major problem confronting us in such a socio-economic and political environment fraught w...