{"id":6237,"date":"2025-06-24T22:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T22:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/the-place-of-religion-in-peace-building-focus-on-plateau-state-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T04:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:16:55","slug":"the-place-of-religion-in-peace-building-focus-on-plateau-state-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/the-place-of-religion-in-peace-building-focus-on-plateau-state-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PLACE OF RELIGION IN PEACE BUILDING:  FOCUS ON PLATEAU STATE NIGERIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>THE PLACE OF RELIGION IN PEACE BUILDING:  FOCUS ON PLATEAU STATE NIGERIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/view\/395' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/download\/395\/360' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Religion and peace have been almost mutual companions from time immemorial and in different cultures all over the world. This is simply because the vast majority of adherents and leaders of different religions still hold that true religion is a source and guarantor of individual and societal peace. Religion has the capacity to bring people together based on the increased trust and love it can introduce in the hearts of the people. However, gaps exist between the text and the practice of religion. The gap between peace and conflict in religion of finding common grounds for the maintenance of peaceful and harmonious relationships remains a prime commodity. This paper prevents an overview of this gap among world religions and the need to close the gap in order to achieve peaceful coexistence. The research used secondary data.&nbsp; political feud\/elite conspiracy theory was adopted.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>TANKO SHAWULU  PAUL (NIGERIAN ARMY UNIVERSITY BIU, BORNO STATE)<\/li>\n<li>LEMON BLESSINGS  EBENEZER (GLORIOUS VISION UNIVERSITY, OGWA, EDO STATE)<\/li>\n<li>KAJAN EMMANUEL  MINDAT (UNIVERSITY OF JOS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>Religion, conflict, peace, peace building<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: THE PLACE OF RELIGION IN PEACE BUILDING: FOCUS ON PLATEAU STATE NIGERIA Original Article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[2590,1927,2536,640],"class_list":["post-6237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-conflict","tag-peace","tag-peace-building","tag-religion","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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