Culture as Basis for Conflict Creation and Conflict Resolution in Africa

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to examine culture in African traditional societies and how it has led to conflict and the resolution methods that were used to stop the menace in the contemporary societies. Culture by its definition is the computation of the peculiarities of a people’s values which is regarded as the totality of their persons. It is seen as part of their culture. The study discovered that the outcome of western model of conflict was anchored on a tripped structure- win-win, winloose, loose-loose (on rare occasion). A lot depended on the strata of maneuvering or tractability and the willingness of the people involved in the conflict to bring out their perceived realities evidently and with scrupulousness of resolution and ingenuous temperament. In the case of conventional schemes, the people involved in the encounter consistently and collective blame and acclaim so intrinsically in the difficulty and are repeatedly declared to change around through the pronouncement of the dictum. “give a little, get a little”. This paper is used secondary method of
data collection. This paper suggests that there is no victor no vanquished in the verdict of the intervenors of the reconciliations especially in the traditional methods.