EFFECT OF ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICT AMONG YOUTH IN NASARAWA STATE OF NIGERIA

Nasarawa State is one of the country’s most ethnically and religiously heterogeneous entities. Since the advent of democratic rule in 1999> the heterogeneous nature of the Nasarawa State in terms of religion and ethnicity has created a major challenge of diversity management as evident in the prolonged inter-communal, religious and ethnic related conflicts that plagued the zone with grave humanitarian consequences. Deaths associated with these conflicts are unevenly distributed in terms of their frequency and intensity. Key drivers of these conflicts have been contestations over access to land control of political and economic power, as well as disputes over indigeneship, which reflects a conceptual difference enshrined in Nigeria's constitution. As the problem of ethnoreligious conflict among the youths in Nasarawa State comes into the limelight, this study intends to make an in-depth investigation into the effect of ethnoreligious conflict among the youth in Nasarawa State. The Paper focused on the ethnoreligious conflict in the Nasarawa State of Nigeria.