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Panelist Hetty ter Haar |
Connecting Religious Conflicts and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) in Nigeria Gwamna Dogara Je’adayibe, Dept of Religious Studies, University of Jos, Nigeria The last few decades have witnessed
increased phenomenon of refugee problem worldwide. This has been fuelled
by incessant wars, famine, epidemics, etc. By the early 1990s, there
were close to 7 million refugees in Africa. The number has increased
tremendously since then. The United Nations estimated that there were
30 million designated as “internally displaced people”,
individuals who had been forced from homes within the boundaries of
their own countries. They have become “exiles in their own home.”
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