AMAMIHE Journal of Applied Philosophy

This article examines the dynamism of civil unrest in Nigeria and the methods adopted in resolving them. The presence of civil unrest simply indicates that relations among people and government have soured and turned violent. This is usually due to unresolved minor disputes which now escalate into violent conflicts. The causes of social unrest in Nigeria are reasoned to be marginalisation, corruption, unemployment, poverty, hunger and deprivation, inequality, political manipulations, and of course, ethno-religious conflicts. Through the application of analytic method, the work finds that both the government and the subjects have often adopted violence as the commonest method either for suppression or for expression of grievances. The work, therefore, concludes that with the proper conceptualisation of Satyagraha and its complete employment to confront the forces of injustice, an egalitarian society based on the virtue of care, social justice and equality can be attained.

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