Articles by Adeleye Oyeniyi
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Conflict and Violence in Africa: Causes, Sources and Types
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Conflict usually occurs primarily as a result of a clash of interests in the relationship between parties, groups or states, either because they pursuing opposing or incompatible goals. Although the term war is sometimes used as a synonym for conflict, it is more usual to restrict the meaning of war to violent conflict, involving armed forces.
→ read full articleEmeritus Prof. Dr. DIETRICH FISCHER (1941 – 2015)
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Those of us whom he groomed, at EPU and other numerous institutions, will eternally cherish appreciated that he embraced us all as his own friends. Apart from his professional calling, Dietrich was also known to many as a philanthropist. His generosity included financial, food and other gifts to numerous students and people.
→ read full articleConflict and Violence in Africa: Causes, Sources and Types
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Conflict usually occurs primarily as a result of a clash of interests in the relationship between parties, groups or states, either because they pursuing opposing or incompatible goals. Although the term war is sometimes used as a synonym for conflict, it is more usual to restrict the meaning of war to violent conflict, involving armed forces.
→ read full articlePeace-Building in Africa
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
What is Peace-building? The term is used to refer to long-term preventive, pre-hostility strategies, for measures to remove the internal causes of conflict and to strengthen structural stability in a country against the threat of civil war.
→ read full articleEthnicity and Indigene/Settler Conflict
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
Ethnicity has been one of the regular features of the Third World societies. Africa has had more than lion share in ethnic-induced wars and violence. The issue of ethnicity has become the most viable factor, which explains the social reality of post-colonial Africa. During colonisation of African people, colonialists failed to put the issue of cultural differences of various ethnic groupings into consideration before lumping them together in (colonial) state formation. The oversight has constituted and remained one of the greatest challenges of post-colonial Africa.
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