Godwin Benjamin Favour

Communal Conflict and Environmental Degradation in Rural Nigeria: A Critical Review of Institutional Rupture, Landscape Change and Pathways to Environmental Peacebuilding

Godwin Benjamin Favour & Iyenemi, Ibimina Kakulu · Asian Journal of Advanced Research and Reports · 2026

Rural Nigeria has become one of the most intensively studied settings in the global debate on whether environmental change causes violence, yet the scholarship remains divided between accounts that treat degradation and climatic stress as proximate drivers of communal violence an...