Does Post Displacement Anxiety Affect Pupils’ Achievement? An Impact Assessment of Internally Displaced Persons’ Camps in Plateau State Nigeria

Abstract

The growing trends of insecurity occasioned by Boko-haram, herdsmen attack, kidnappings, unknown gunmen, bandits and likes is point of concern to all stake holders in the education sector in Nigeria. This situation in Plateau state has been worrisome in the last two decades. Individuals are displaced all around the world because of several factors. Internal displacement is a phenomenon in which individuals are forced to leave their homes but remain within the borders of their own countries. Another element that distinguishes them from refugees, who are also involuntarily displaced but across internationally recognized state borders is that internally displaced persons stay at the border of their countries (World Bank, 2014). Displacement occurs in situations like armed conflict, persecution, situations of widespread violence, natural and human-made disasters and, more recently, large-scale development projects . Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are people that have been forced...