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Civil disorders

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Name(s):

Social disorder

Riots

Civil unrest

Civil disturbances

Nature

Civil disorder, also known as civil disturbance, civil unrest, or turmoil, are situations when law enforcement struggle to maintain public order or tranquility.

Source: Wikipedia

Incidence

Civil unrest flared up in Nigeria in 1993, in an unprecedented civilian challenge to the military following the rejection of the presidential election results by the Nigerian military leader Ibrahim Babangida.

Broader

Narrower

Crimes committed during civil unrest

Aggravates

Political upheavals ^{[in 3 loops]}

Human destructiveness ^{[in 8 loops]}

Aggressive stone throwing

Harm to innocent bystanders

Proliferation of weapons in civilian hands ^{[in 2 loops]}

Aggravated by

Lack of social discipline

Inadequacy of civil defence

Unchecked village rowdiness

Inadequate working conditions

Social hardships of economic reform

Unethical practices by police forces

Environmental degradation of inner city areas

Monotonous and unaesthetic architecture and design

Reduced by

Excessive government control

Strategy(ies)

Pacifying citizens

Engaging in riots

Controlling riots

Quieting civil unrest

Value(s)

Reference(s)

Fogelson, Robert M: Violence As Protest: a study of riots and ghettos

Type

(C) Cross-sectoral problems

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