Higher Education, Diplomatic Relations and Conflict Resolution: An Assessment of Linkages

Abstract

Education has a crucial role in the growth of a country. For this reason, a sizable portion of the annual budgets of developed countries are set aside for education, particularly higher education. Similarly, countries striving for excellence do not treat the education system lightly. Any country hoping to use scientific approaches to tackle its problems must take education very seriously. However, using Nigeria as a case study, enough has not been done in allocating a sizable portion of state and federal funds to educational development. Meanwhile, a nation's skill and aptitude to produce effective diplomats will increase when its higher educational institutions receive sufficient funding. To obtain sufficient data for the research, content analysis of scholarly books, journals, websites, newspapers, and in-person interviews were used. The paper comes to the conclusion that education is essential to the progress of nations. The study found that the attainment of higher educational qualifications would strengthen diplomatic relationships as competent mediators with sound knowledge of dispute resolution techniques would be produced.