Effect of Conflict on National Development : An Appraisal of Federal Government of Nigeria and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) from 2015 to 2020

Abstract

This article strives towards a critical study on the effect of conflict on national development: An appraisal of Federal Government of Nigeria and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) from 2015 to 2020. Conflict is an inevitable phenomenon in any society. So far what forms any organization whether in a macro or micro level are humans who come from different lives background then it becomes inescapable for conflict not to emanate. But what this research looks forward to achieving is on how to arrest conflicts at its embryo stage to avoid escalation which will lead to dysfunctional aspect of conflict that will hamper national development. Therefore, this work attributes the existence of dysfunctional conflicts in any society to the inability of the leaders to manage and curb the sources/causes of the conflicts at its earlier stage. The paper opines that leader of any organization / society should be held responsible for persistent and uncontrolled conflict that threats the peaceful coexistence and national development of the nation. The researchers made use of both primary and secondary sources of data. Primary data were based on the personal observations and experience of the researchers on the said topic whereas secondary data were obtained via publications of scholars on articles, journals, textbooks, internet, etc. The research is qualitative research, and all the obtained data were qualitatively analyzed through a content analysis. Through the analysis of the gathered data, the researchers found what the paper named ‘’leadership failure’’. And after thorough dissection of the leadership failure, the study was able to come up with the following recommendations among others in which the researchers strongly believed that if the recommendations are to put into practice outside these theoretical paper recommendations that the issue of persistence conflicts in Nigeria which usually affects national development will be surmounted in any society that applies them. These include a. To establish a law that will bare anybody who does not have a sound knowledge on human resources management, economy and conflict resolution from occupying a high leadership position. b. causes of conflict must be identified, arrested and properly handled at its early stage to avoid escalation. c. transparency and equity must be the watchword of any leader. d. every conflict resolution strategy that will be applied must be fair and just, etc..