Colman Nwokoro

Poor government decision-making and policies can have a more significant negative effect on the poorest segment of a population. These decisions often create a society replete with violence as people seek means to overcome their vulnerable conditions. This phenomenon, exhibited by the banning of motorcycle taxis-a major source of survival for "existentially immobile young men" (ix)-in northern Nigeria is what drives Daniel Agbiboa, in Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency, to provide extensive research and a compelling argument to explain how mobility and mobilization have contributed to terrorism, insurgency, and counter insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin of Africa. The author seeks to emphasize the aspect of mobility within the patterns of armed conflicts, using Boko Haram as a case study. An underlying goal of this text is to challenge Western representations of movement in Africa, which he carefully examines in stages throughout each chapter.

To believe that everyone created by God bears a spark of Divinity should be a criterion to believe that no one is deficient of Divine gifts to engender human flourishing, social transformation, and economic development and growth. This is the position of Pope Francis when he drew the attention of the host communities and countries of migrants and refugees to their enormous potentials to help the society in his message of the 108th World Migrant and Refugee Day (Vatican, May 12, 2022). In light of this, Pope Francis believes that the situation and the condition that led people to be migrants and refugees did not deplete their God given talents, gifts, and potentials. To this end, he advises the host communities and countries to see them as a resource for building the economy and the future of their society. This is what this paper sets to advance, as I understand equally that anyone irrespective of his or her background, conditions, and status can drive human flourishing, social transformation, and economic growth and development. Thus, migrants and refugees should be respected by their host communities and hence, be given an opportunity to develop their potential as people with a common humanity. God never created anyone tabularized!

To believe that everyone created by God bears a spark of Divinity should be a criterion to believe that no one is deficient of Divine gifts to engender human flourishing, social transformation, and economic development and growth. This is the position of Pope Francis when he drew the attention of the host communities and countries of migrants and refugees to their enormous potentials to help the society in his message of the 108th World Migrant and Refugee Day (Vatican, May 12, 2022). In light of this, Pope Francis believes that the situation and the condition that led people to be migrants and refugees did not deplete their God given talents, gifts, and potentials. To this end, he advises the host communities and countries to see them as a resource for building the economy and the future of their society. This is what this paper sets to advance, as I understand equally that anyone irrespective of his or her background, conditions, and status can drive human flourishing, social transformation, and economic growth and development. Thus, migrants and refugees should be respected by their host communities and hence, be given an opportunity to develop their potential as people with a common humanity. God never created anyone tabularized!

This article proposes a model for interreligious dialogue that might have more promise than previously applied models. This model uses Jesus's encounter with the Samaritan woman as an example. In this context this article encourages everyone, especially Christians, to take Jesus's approach as a new model for interreligious dialogue. Such a reading of this narrative counters those who interpret the Gospel of John as anti-Jewish. Prominent among them is Adele Reinhartz who believes that the text embodies and teaches interreligious hatred (2002). The first major section reviews different scholars' views on the anti-Jewish interpretation of John. Next the critical issue of the history of the strained relationship between the Jews and the Samaritans is discussed. Then follows a look at the person of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel, which highlights him as an example of interreligious dialogue. After that, the place and the kind of people needed for successful interreligious dialogue are outlined. The penultimate section looks at Jesus's encounter with the Samaritan woman in some detail. The article ends with a recommendation that invites everyone, especially Christians, to always be open to dialogue with other religions.

Granted, an appreciable effort has been made, and great achievement recorded in the interreligious dialogue between Islam and Christianity. Thanks to many honest and sincere experts, scholars, thinkers, and religious leaders, who have devoted their time, made sacrifices and deployed their intellectual and spiritual gifts to this project. But the questions one asks are, why have we not achieved relative peace, cohesion, and compatibility in many multireligious societies? Who and What are the natural obstacles? And how do we get to a fruitful and lasting dialogue between Islam and Christianity to achieve true peace and compatibility among these religions? To respond to these questions, I will argue in this paper that a holistic education/ knowledge about the tenets, doctrines, and modus operandi of these religions might remedy the situation. This will, in a sense, help the adherents of these religions not to live with misconceptions, propaganda, which will result in suspicion and phobia of the other religion.