Youth Violence and Human Security in Nigeria

Abstract

The failures of governance and statehood in Nigeria breed an anarchical or disruptive system in the state and provide a platform for youth violence and justification for disruptive behaviour against the state systems and structures. Contributing to the available research, this study shifts its focus to understand and address the linkage of disruptive behaviour by studying and discussing Human Security through the lens of youth violence in Nigeria. In doing so, this study adopts a mixed method approach of quantitative and qualitative data with Ted Robert Gurr’s theory of relative deprivation to investigate, analyse and discuss the issues herein. From the findings, cultism and ethnic factors were identified as major causes of youth violence among others. Thus, effective institutions, quality education, economic and security regional or geopolitical zones programs is noted as a means to address youth violence in Nigeria.

Utilisation of new media in communicating insecurity in Southeast Nigeria

“…This exposure will significantly improve people's security alertness. This corroborates the finding of (Ezemenaka, 2021), who revealed that media security awareness campaigns have a way to influence audience security alertness. This finding is consistent with the technological determinism theory on which this study was based, because exposure to insecurity messages as a result of new media will have a significant impact on people in society, particularly those who are directly exposed to the messages (Aldunate & González-Ibáñez, 2017).…”

The influence of education, economy and religion domains in enhancing ethnic unity among Malaysian youths

“…The significance of the influence of education, economics and religion in enhancing ethnic unity and solidarity had been discussed by many researchers (Ezemenaka, 2021; Heyneman and Todoric-Bebic, 2000; Hjerm et al, 2018; Tsekeris et al, 2015) and this includes certain scholars that examined the effect of civic education policies on students’ spirit of nationalism (Nurdin, 2017). However, research on the influence of education, economics and religion towards enhancement ethnic unity among youth has not been presented by any researchers.…”

“…Religious clashes between Muslims, Christians and several other religious followers have left the community feeling insecure and helpless, as a result of more than 50 ethnoreligious clashes left 100,000 people dead with property worth billions of Naira was damaged around 1976 to 2009. In fact, according to Ezemenaka (2021), youths in Nigeria are willing to use violence against individuals who oppose their beliefs and religions due to their grievances over political rights, cultural rights, religious rights, and minority rights that the government has not met. Meanwhile, in Europe, youth religious awareness is growing as they begin to feel a sense of belonging in their ethnic-religious identities and begin to comprehend their respective countries' religious turmoil.…”