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    Building Peace after Share-Tsalagi Conflicts: Strategies for Sustainable Peace and Prevention of Future Conflicts between the Two Ethnic Groups
    (Department of History and International Relations, Veritas University (The Catholic University of Nigeria), Abuja-Nigeria., 2025) SULEIMAN ABDULRAHMAN ADEBAYO; Samuel Rachel Nabetan
    Conflicting interests on land resources, power sharing, and clamouring for equal political representation resulted in violence between the Share and Tsaragi communities in 1978. The violence was mitigated before the end of 1978. The citizens of Kwara State hoped that the crisis had been quelled forever. In the years 2000, 2008, 2015, and 2019, the crisis reoccurred and escalated into violence, which involved killing and destruction of properties. At the end of each year’s violence, the Kwara State government and the citizens believed that the crisis among the ethnic groups would never recur. Given a holistic assessment of the pattern of relations among the ethnic groups that were involved in the violence after each violence, historians suggested that the crisis could recur. This study examines the aftermath of the violence with strategies to prevent future occurrences among the two ethnic groups of Share and Tsaragi. The work adopted the historical approach of primary and secondary sources of information, and the method used involved oral interviews, archival records, and text context analysis. The research concluded that the study of the aftermath of each violence provided incentives for assessment, management, and control strategies against future recurrences of the violence among the Share and Tsaragi communities in the northern hemisphere of Kwara State in north central Nigeria. Keywords: Ethnic Crisis; Share-Tsaragi Communities; Aftermaths of the Crisis; Management; Control Strategies; Prevention Introduction