Conflict Studies and Postgraduate Studies in Nigeria: Missing Links

Abstract

The nation-states of the world through ages have striven to embrace wealth by all means and decimate poverty. This urge has seen movement from the simple agrarian societies to mercantile trades, the industrial revolution and the globalization-information technology era. Landes, (2008) in this sought to explain why some nations are rich and some so poor and maintain the status quo infinito. The developed nation-states thus pursue knowledge-driven societies with the intent to enhance their economic, political and social status with trickle-down effects in order to maintain global dominance. This paper seeks to examine the priority given postgraduate studies and research and its affiliates to foster efficiency driven economies within comparative lens of developed and developing countries with specific reference to Nigeria in terms of short and long term implications. This is as it borders seeking connections between postgraduate research ameliorating violent conflicts, insurgency and terrorism within and amongst nation-states as practiced in knowledge-driven societies. Arguments abound that developed nation-states have thrived on higher pedestals of development given their synergy with researches from universities-cum-research organizations and other factors. Hazelkon, (2005:22), cited in UNESCO Report, (2008) concur that higher education in developed countries strive to match research priorities with national priorities