Abstract:
The recurrence of communal conflict in Nigeria has remained one of the serious problems
confronting national integration and sustainable development. Hence, it must be stamped
out. It is against this background that this paper argued that everybody including
Nigerian adult educators and counselors must contribute to the restoration of peace in
our communities. The paper therefore, examined incidents of communal conflict and
factors responsible for it in Nigeria. The paper concludes that through exploration of
community-based counselling approaches such as empowerment of local communities,
socioeconomic recovery, community-based environmental forum, community dialogue
initiative, traditional justice and reconciliation, community-based security forum and
community-based counselling mediation team, tolerance education, communal conflict
can be combated. The paper recommends among others that counsellors and adult
educators should popularize community-based counselling approaches in conflict
management among Nigerian communities with the view for communities to explore them
in resolving conflicts.
