The global community, especially Sub-Saharan Africa has progressively become a battle field for communal conflicts overland resource affiliation involving incompatible interest and uses. This paper examines communal conflicts within the context of the remote and proximate causes and the role of traditional rulers towards achieving sustainable solutions to identify the remote and proximate causes of communal clashes in Tivland within the context of population growth.

As well as to examine the role of traditional rulers in reducing/ending communal conflicts among the Tiv people. The paper, which is anchored on primary and secondary data administered 400 structured questionnaire on respondents. Purposively sample from traditional rulers, community leaders, youth associations and the general masses drawn from Gboko and Katsina-Ala LGAs, which are administrative areas of two of the three senatorial districts of Benue State. The study embraced Geographic Information System (GIS) to produce bar graphs to analyze demographic data. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis using percentages and Pearson correlation were employed to test hypotheses. Result revealed that communal conflicts in Benue State have strong positive correlation with exponential population growth. The result also revealed that traditional rulers have made spectacular landmarks in the quest for sustainable solutions but these have yielded little fruits.

In conclusion, the study highlighted the pivotal role of traditional leadership in resolving communal conflicts in Tivland, identifying population growth and land scarcity as drivers of conflicts, disrupting the balance between land demand and supply. The study accordingly recommends aggressive population education for the masses, strengthening the institution of traditional leadership and modern techniques of production. The study finally recommends that the command structure of security architecture in all states and local government levels should be based on indigene-ship to beef up allegiance to traditional rulers.