Abstract

Chris C. Ojukwu and C. A. Onifade*

The thrust of the paper is to critically examine how the concept of social capital can be a useful tool in the building and advancement of peace, community trust, cooperation and access to justice in conflict-torn environments like Nigeria; that is, social capital to serve as a mechanism to mediate and/or moderate the interand intra-communal conflicts and enhance the capacity of the Nigerian state to pursue and promote nonrepressive and accommodative policies of inter-intra ethnic equity and reciprocity