IPCR Enhances Peacebuilding Efforts Across Nigeria

The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) is taking steps to strengthen its peacebuilding offices across Nigeria in response to persistent security challenges, including banditry, kidnapping, insurgency, and communal clashes. Ambrose Okosun, the Director of Zonal and State Peacebuilding Offices, announced this initiative during a preparatory meeting aimed at coordinating a sensitisation programme to enhance the operational capacity of the Institute’s field offices.

The programme will focus on improving skills in mediation, conflict prevention, and peace education while addressing challenges such as inadequate funding, insufficient training, and limited personnel. Reports from various zonal offices indicated widespread security issues, with specific concerns raised in regions like the North-Central, North-West, North-East, South-East, and South-West.

Recommendations included improved surveillance, intelligence sharing, and stronger community-police relations to foster sustainable peace by tackling underlying issues like poverty and unemployment.