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Impact Of Internal Displacement Due To Insurgency On Women And Children In Nigeria
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1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Psychological research are conducted to benefit humanity, similarly this study is significant in the following:
1.
The findings of this research would provide useful information to
psychological centers, and clinical psychologist who seeks to offer
therapeutic services to help victims of Boko Haram to deal with the
traumatic experiences.
2. This study will provide useful literature for further researchers who will conduct related research in the future.
3.
Nongovernmental organizations also would benefit from this study even
as they worked with IDPs. The research will help the NGO to know to help
those who suffer psychologically as a result of what they experienced
that necessitate displacement from their homes.
4. This study will
provide useful information to the general public. It will provide useful
educational materials in the libraries.
1.6 METHODOLOGY
Data
were gathered from both primary and secondary sources the nature of
information gathered included both qualitative and quantitative sources
of data. The qualitative source of data consisted of the descriptive
aspect of the study and the quantitative source of data entailed the use
of figures primarily for observing trends of the level and the rate of
human displacement internally at the national, regional as well as
global levels. Both primary and secondary data were utilized to enhance
the quality of the study. The data analysis adopted was the textual
analysis. The textual analysis aids the researcher to analyze the
content of communication instead of the formation of the content. It as
well aided the use of narratives and historical documentations of the
crisis of internally displaced person’s crisis to understand the ideas
which were expressed in written words.
1.6 DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS
Internal displacement / Internally Displaced Persons
Internally
displaced persons are "persons or groups of persons who have been
forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual
residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects
of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of
human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not
crossed an internationally recognized State border.
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