A national initiative to improve Nigeria’s capacity to detect and respond to emerging conflicts is underway in Plateau State, where government agencies, security actors, community groups, and civil society organisations have begun a week long capacity building workshop aimed at strengthening early warning and early response mechanisms.
The programme, implemented by the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) under the UK funded SPRiNG Programme, is part of the National Conflict Early Warning and Early Response System (NCEWERS) Project, which is running simultaneously in Benue, Kaduna, Katsina, and Plateau States.
The initiative targets 200 stakeholders across the four states and focuses on conflict sensitivity, early warning data validation, climate risk analysis, and coordinated responses to farmer–herder clashes, banditry, communal disputes, and climate related threats.