Experts on religious extremism have urged the Federal Government to take religious extremism in Nigeria more seriously.
Mahfouz Adedimeji, a social critic who was the guest speaker at a seminar organised on Saturday by the Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC), said religion has been politicised in the country to cause crisis.
Making a presentation on the topic: ‘Religions as a Catalyst for Peace Building, National Integration and Conflict Management in Nigeria’, Adedimeji decried the population re-grouping of global religious sects, noting that “conflicts have been given different names based on the various views of liberal, radical and neo-liberal perspectives”.
He identified models of conflict management to include: conflict avoidance, compromise, collaboration and accommodation, stating that “religion has given rise to violence in the country and the world in general, with…
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