In a move that shouldn't surprise anybody, a US advisory commission on international religious violence has recommended that Obama dub Nigeria a "Country of Particular Concern" with regards to its out of control religious violence. Apparently, 12000 people have been killed in the last decade in only a dozen incidents. I would normally assume that this is the sort of thing Nigeria would get huffy about, but the article claimed that the top brass in Nigeria welcomed the prying committee when it went to see Nigeria's dismal religious community relations for itself, and looked forward to working with the US to eradicate the problem. The article was fairly silent on how the country should actually go about finding a solution, it only gave this pithy line, "more violence should be expected in Nigeria except there is a change."
Come to think of it, I don't know of one single country that has successfully resolved deep religious schisms. The United Kingdom is probably the closest, but even there people still kill each other over religion. In India, Hindus and Buddhists seem to get along (hindus and muslims definitely do not though), but I am not aware of any insuperable doctrinal schism between the two. Actually the relationship between Hinduism and Buddhism is similar to that between Christianity and Islam, in each case both religions are similar in their roots and teachings.
Vanguard article
