Civil society, conflict resolution, and democracy in Nigeria /Darren Kew.
- First edition.
- Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource.
- Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Competing visions of civil society -- Democratic theory and conflict resolution methods: gauging civil society's democratic impact -- Nigerian state and Nigerian civil society -- The traditional way: the first generation of Nigerian civil society -- The power of the social contract: the second generation of Nigerian civil society -- Replacing the receding state: the third generation of Nigerian civil society -- Nigerian civil society under authoritarian rule in the 1990s: the primacy of democratic structures in democracy promotion -- Epilogue: Nigerian civil society under the young democracy, 1999-2015 -- Appendix: Nigerian civil society groups.