ELECTORAL PROCESSES AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN THE APRIL 2011 ELECTION

PREFACE Election in any country is not conducted in any-how-way. There are procedures in which elections are conducted. Elections must be carried out in any country that long for peace, unity and stability. But it is unfortunate that elections has turn out to be something else, instead of a positive result, it brings out negative result which a times claims lives and properties. All these are caused by our so-called leaders, a times when they loose elections, instead of taking things the way they are, they resorted into rioting and killing. Never the less, we have bodies which are responsible for any election carried out in any country and this bodies has organized processes of conducting elections whereby trying to avoid political violence. However, as we proceed, we are going to know more about these electoral processes and political violence using the April 2011 election as a case study.    TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page Dedication Acknowledgment Preface Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE: ELECTORAL PROCESSES AND DEMOCRATIZATION  1.1Their Focus 1.2Their Approach  1.3Electoral Process as in Saudi Arabia 1.4Electoral Processes in the Nigeria: The April 2011  Election and Beyond 1.5Electoral Commission as in Saudi Arabia
CHAPTER TWO: MEANING/CONCEPT OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE  2.1Causes of Political Violence 2.2 Post-Election Violence in Northern Nigeria 2.31 April 2011 Political Violence Unabated in Nigeria as  Presidential Election Near   CHAPTER THREE: MALDIVIAN DEMOCRACY NETWORK  3.1Political Background  3.2Maldivian Democracy Network      
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