Abstract:
Peaceful co-existence is essential to the attainment of national development in any
society. The Nigerian society has witnessed and still witnessing several violent conflicts
stemming from religious, political, ethnic and economic reasons with varied negative
implications for national integration and sustainable development. It is against this
background that this paper argues that everybody including Nigerian adult educators
must contribute to the restoration of peace in Nigeria. The paper therefore, examines
the relationship between peaceful coexistence and national development and fa ctors
responsible for lack of peaceful coexistence in Nigeria. The paper concludes that adult
educators can use their virile adult education provisions such as peace education, human
rights education, concentization programme, citizenship education, functional literacy,
liberal education and tolerance education to restore peaceful coexistence in Nigeria
