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Reintegrating the ‘Repentant’: Theological and Ethical Challenges of Welcoming Former Boko Haram Members in Nigerian Religious Communities

The reintegration of former Boko Haram members into Nigerian religious communities raises profound theological and ethical questions that the existing literature has largely left unaddressed. Drawing on Miroslav Volf’s theology of reconciliation as expressed in Exclusion and Embrace (1996; revised 2019), supplemented by Islamic doctrines of tawbah (repentance) and sulh (reconciliation) and African Traditional Religion (ATR) frameworks of communal restoration, this article interrogates how Islam, Christianity, and ATR in Nigeria conceptualise the return of the ‘repentant’ ex-combatant. Using fo…

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Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
Date	2026-08-18
Type	article
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Found at	https://doi.org/10.56201/ijssmr.vol.12no6.2026.pg223.234
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Reintegrating the ‘Repentant’: Theological and Ethical Challenges of Welcoming Former Boko Haram Members in Nigerian Religious Communities. OpenAlex research, 2026. Vero Archive, record openalex:W7203694162.