CONFLICT AND PEACE AS ANTAGONISTIC NEIGHBOURS: A STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF PEACE AND CONFLICT IN CONTEMPOARY SOCIETIES

Abstract

Conflict and peace have been a trend in human affairs right from time immemorial. It is either a society is peaceful or in conflict. Peace and conflict determines human relations. The two terms are antagonistic because there will be no peace if a society is in conflict and at the same time conflict disrupt development and retards progress in the society. Parties to conflict cannot fight till eternity, measures have been devised to tame conflict and restore peace in any society. In communities, third parties including in-laws, grandchildren and some eminent persons enhances peaceful settlement of conflict. At the international level, international and regional organizations enhance peaceful interventions and settlement of conflicts.  This work examines the concept of peace and conflict using predominantly secondary sources. The work proffered that although the two scenes cannot cohere or exist together, early detection of conflict can go a long way to nib in the bud the potential sources of the conflict before it escalate to an unimaginable stage which is crisis.