The Ife-modakeke Conflict, 1800-2000: Conflict Resolution and Peace Building in a Composite Community

It has been noted that most intra-ethnic conflict in Africa becomes difficult to manage because many are deliberately created ?war economies' in which violence performs variety of functions in alternative systems of profit, power, and protection. The politics of governance in Nigeria in relation to conflict resolution points in the direction of political leaders benefiting in illegal arms sales and other forms of political gains from conflicts. To stem or control this development, new conflict resolution modalities oriented towards the masses need to be formulated, so as to appeal to the direct recipients of the scourge of conflicts and wars not to allow politicians to use them as cannon-fodders in the bids to feather their nests.