50 LAPAI JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES, VOLUMES 7 NUMBER 1 Military History and Conflict Management Chukwuma Osakwe & Ubong Essien Umoh Abstract Military history as a sub-discipline of history examines the strategic, operational, tactical, political, institutional, sociological and cultural aspects of war. Given the fact that warfare cannot be excluded from the study of conflict, there lies much in military history that could be useful in the study of conflict and conflict management. However, despite the central role that military history plays in the conduct and understanding of conflict and conflict management, its place is much understudied. The paper examines the importance of military history to understanding conflict management. The paper submits that from the pedagogical viewpoint, military history can be used to better study conflict, conflict management and prevention. As such, to ignore military history in the study of conflict management is to sacrifice depth, breadth and spread of humankind age-old endeavour – war. Introduction Conflict management, widely understood to be an attempt by actors involved in conflict to reduce the level of hostility and generate some order in their relations, has gained recognition as an important academic study. Justification for the study of conflict management is gleaned daily on popular media and a cottage industry of literature has burgeoned around the subject. Conflict which is the main concern of conflict management does not follow the same pattern and cannot be examined at the same level. To assume so would tantamount to reductionism of the concept of conflict. Conflict can either be violent or non-violent. In terms of escalation and de-escalation dynamics, the manifestation of conflict is observable from the lowest level of differences to the highest level of war. Using levels of analysis, Chukwuma Osakwe, PhD, Department of History & International Studies Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), P. M. B. 2109, Kaduna, Nigeria. Ubong Essien Umoh, Department of History & International Studies, University of Uyo, P. M. B 1017, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.