IMPACT OF UNITED NATIONS-SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1325, ON THE ROLE OF NIGERIAN WOMEN IN PEACE BUILDING PROCESS
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In recent times, the most cherished and most desirable amongst the contemporary challenges in Nigeria cultural milieu, are the issues of peace and security. Worried by the numerous communal crises and conflicts in central senatorial district of Cross River State this paper therefore, is an attempt to critically evaluate the role of women involvement in peace building in Cross River State, with the aim of providing effective mechanism for conflict Resolution. To achieve this, one research question and a hypothesis were formulated thus: There is no significant relationship between conflict resolution and peace building in Cross River State. A survey research design was used for this study. A properly structured Likert-scale questionnaire was designed for data collection and collation. A total of 300 respondents were randomly sampled to represent the population of the study. Data for the study was analyzed using simple percentages and the hypothesis tested using the t-test statistical tool. The result of the test revealed that: there is a significant relationship between conflict resolution and women involvement in peace building in Cross River State. The result of the findings, are so significant because there could add to the mirage of information in Knowledge Bank concerning women involvement in peace building.
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