post / 05 September 2022

PAST EVENT: Launch of Middle Belt Brain Trust Research Report

On Monday September 5, 2022, IFITโ€™s Nigeria Middle Belt Brain Trust co-organised with the Government of Nasarawa State the official launch of its latest publication, Ending Violence in Nigeriaโ€™s Middle Belt: A Strategic Report of Nasarawa State.

At the event, the Executive Governor of Nasarawa State, Engr. Abdullahi Sule, stated that the report โ€œoffers a comprehensive picture of the intricate forces causing conflict in Nasarawa Stateโ€ and that it would โ€œno doubt add to [their] efforts to tackle insecurity through a sustained special attention to matters that border on security and active engagement of all stakeholdersโ€. He assured that the government โ€œwould study the report with a view to adopting its recommendations for the benefit of [its] peopleโ€.

Based on two years of extensive research and on-the-ground interviews with community members affected by the stateโ€™s most important conflicts, the report presents an in-depth analysis of the drivers of violence in Nasarawa State to understand broader dynamics of conflict across the Middle Belt of Nigeria and the spectrum of realistic solutions.