The Impact of Eviction in Community Conflict

ABSTRACT
Conflict in agrarian communities has been a norm right from time immemorial.
Communities fight over boundary, land ownership, or retaliation over an attack
on an indigene. Such conflicts have left communities perpetually antagonistic,
creating enemies that may last for a life time. Sometime, it is only divine
intervention that can resolve such prolonged and protracted conflicts. When
community conflict defies resolution it may result in attacks and counter attacks.
One of the major characteristics of contemporary community conflict is eviction.
The study found out that prolonged conflicts sometimes escalate into crises which
may results in eviction of a weaker or defeated party from ancestral home or
settlement, neglect of economic activities which result in poverty and finally
resettlement in another area.