ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMMES FOR SUSTAINABLE PEACE TOWARDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN RIVERS STATE

Abstract

This study examined adult education programmes for sustainable peace 
towards community development in Rivers State. Two research questions 
generated from two research objectives were used for the study and two
hypotheses were tested for the study. A descriptive Survey research design was 
adopted for the study. The study was anchored on Conscientization Theory.
The population of this study consisted of 52,060 members of Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) of some communities in twelve (12) Local 
Government Areas of Rivers State. Twenty (20) Community Based 
Organizations were selected from each of the selected Local Government 
Areas of Rivers State which amounted to two hundred and forty (240) 
Community Based Organizations selected for this study. The sample size was 
2,603 members of Community-Based Organizations in the selected Local 
Government Areas of Rivers State. The instrument for data collection was a 
structured questionnaire. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze 
the research questions with the reliability index of 0.87 while the hypotheses 
were tested with Z-Test Statistics at 0.05 level of significance. The findings 
from the study showed that peace education and literacy programmes are 
aspects of adult education programmes that contributed to the promotion of 
sustainable peace towards community development in the areas of study. It 
was recommended that peace education, awareness programme and 
empowerment programme should be sustained to sensitize the youths on the 
danger of indulging in any form of vices that will hamper the peace and 
development of their communities and become useful to the society.