Nigeria

Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa’s most populous country and its largest economy, faces several different conflicts, including an insurgency in the North East, ongoing ethnic and religious violence in the country’s Middle Belt, and threatening militancy in the oil-rich Niger Delta. We have been working in Nigeria since 2004, using innovative approaches to promote peacebuilding in areas of tension and to encourage understanding across ethnic, religious, and gender lines. With offices in Abuja, Jos, Maiduguri, and Port Harcourt, we are working to address conflict, utilizing consensus-based advocacy training, conflict resolution training, human rights monitoring and reporting, and the facilitation of dialogue processes that engage all levels of society.

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Prepared for Peace: A Cross-cutting Conflict Transformation Toolkit for Conflict and Violent Extremism in Northern Nigeria -

Action-oriented, cross-sectoral toolkit combining the fields of Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE), Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR), and Screening, Prosecution, Rehabilitation, and Reintegration (SPRR), in Northern Nigeria.

latest projects

Community Reconciliation and Resilience Building in Bolori II - Through a variety of activities, we are working with internally displaced persons and host community members in Bolori II in Borno State.

Plateau Will Arise: Building an Architecture for Peace and Tolerance - The documentary focuses on the Peace Architecture Dialogue (PAD), a state-level platform that focuses on creating a mutual understanding of conflict and security issues in the state and coordinated responses by stakeholders from Government, Security and Civil Society. The PAD is a platform set up by us under […]

Building Consensus on Protection of Holy Sites in Northern Nigeria - Search Nigeria’s Building Consensus on The Protection of Holy Sites in Northern Nigeria project aims to support key religious leaders in Northern Nigeria who have the ability to influence and ensure wide acceptance of the principle that holy sites should be safeguarded as sites for peace and reconciliation rather than targets for destruction during violence.

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