Humanities & Social Sciences 1 (2016 9) 251-264 ~ ~ ~ УДК 343.541 Urban Violence and Demographic Delimitations in Democratic Governance Aluko Opeyemi Idowu* University of Ilorin Kwara State Nigeria Received 15.10.2015, received in revised form 26.11.2015, accepted 03.12.2015 Urban violence has reached a global chaotic stage that requires urgent combat. <...> Concise effort in recommending several way-out of this global menace had been made. <...> These include state creation, zoning formula, affi rmative action and federal character principles. <...> With regards to these efforts, the question this work asked is that what are the effects of demographic delimitations on democratic peace which may appear invisible but potent and volatile in the polity? <...> Relative deprivation theory is used to validate the facts that urban violence is as a result of depriving group of people of their rights and benefi ts. The research methodology adopted is the analyses of the afrobarometer database on national and ethnic identity, security handling and general economic level perception. <...> Two thousand four hundred respondents each in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa respectively are focused in this study. <...> The recommendations posited centres on ensuring adequate representation among the federating units in a country in terms of fi scal and critical geographical differences. <...> The conclusion however centres on the facts that violence ensuing from geographical delimitations are easily escalating but when the geographical differences are streamlined peace will ensue. <...> Keywords: Zoning formulas, Affi rmative action, State Creation, Federal Character, Urban Violence and Relative Deprivation. <...> Introduction Urban violence from a universal peace orientation has reached a global chaotic stage where both man and his environments are in jeopardy of their lives and existence at every instance of an occurrence of such violence. <...> All rights reserved the way of recommending several way-out of this global menace. <...> This means that there are some salient spots and lurking variables which supports and makes violence to survive all precautions, medications and treatment in every polity of the * Corresponding author E-mail address: opealukoheavenprogress@gmail.com # 251 # Aluko Opeyemi Idowu. <...> The question this work seeks answers to is that what are the salient points or issues of continuous violence which may appear invisible but potent <...>