Family Contributions Towards The Attainment Of The Millennium Development Goals As Strategy For Terrorism Reduction: Insights From Teacher-Parents

Abstract

Terrorism is a global phenomenon which is ravaging the developmental activities of all nations most particularly the third world countries. However, in the recent times, these dastard activities have been reduced due to various interventions of different world bodies and thus affecting the growth and development as outlined by the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. This study therefore examines the views of parents on this reduction in terrorism and its contribution to the world's growth. The fifty participants in the study responded to the four items on each of the four goals making sixteen items altogether by rating the extent to which families are contributing to the achievement of the millennium development goals, and thereby could reduce terrorism. Scores were analyzed using mean, percentage, and rank. Findings show that training children in moral conduct, giving support for vocational training of children, family having capacity to educate children, parents having positive attitude towards girl- child education and general caring for the children will promote the MDGS and thereby reducing the act of terrorism. It was recommended that community-based awareness programmes on MDGS and global terrorism should be organized in schools and in different communities to further escalate the effects and achieve more.