Farmers-Pastoralists Conflict and Its Implications on Internal Security in Nigeria

This paper examines the implications of farmers-pastoralists conflicts on internal security in Nigeria. It identified policy framework, climate change, and grazing areas as causative factors in the conflict. Other factors are land ownership, socio-cultural differences, cattle rustling and proliferations of small and light weapons. The paper further discussed the nature of the implications of farmers-pastoralist conflicts on internal security in Nigeria.