Abstract
Insecurity and its attendant consequences have badly affected and slow-down socio-economic development and political stability of many countries around the world. Nigeria is one of the notable countries that have been grappling with insurgency, banditry, and militant activities. The country is beset with a lot of security problems such as Boko Haram, militancy, kidnapping, ethno-religious conflicts, drug trafficking, arms smuggling, and other forms of criminality that erode the country's security. Mankind still underestimates their effect as a threat and risk to its security. Global injustice is also a source of most of dangers to world security: terrorism, crime and regional conflicts. This study seeks to examine how woodwork technology can be used to combart insecurity and reduce injustice for global peace. Survey design was adopted for the study. The instrument used for the data collection is structured questionnaire and the target population consist of groups of 54 woodwork technology lecturers and woodwork technology instructors in 4 public universities in south east, Nigeria. These universities include, the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka (NAUA), Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU) and Enugu State University of Technology(ESUT). Analysis of the data was done using the mean item scores. The study revealed some acts of insecurity ravaging the country to include; banditry, youth violence, ritual violence, cult violence, sexual violence, intimate partner violence, armed robbery, internet fraud, electoral violence, kidnapping, abduction, and human trafficking among others. The study identified some ways of combarting these insecurities using woodwork technology to include;setting up more woodwork training institutions other than universities to accommodate more candidates, creating awareness and encouraging the youths to enroll and get equipped with woodwork technology skills so they can be self reliant, equipping existing woodwork technology institutions with state of the arts tools and machinery for maximum service delivery and frequent maintenance of woodwork technology tools and machines in the tertiary institutions. This can be achieved if all the stakeholders are involved, especially the government, which plays a cardinal role in the formulation of regulations and policies that support good educational standards.
Keywords: Insecurity, Global Peace, Woodwork technology and Injustice
Publication Date: 2024-12-08