‘Building Peace in the Plateau State’ is part of a webinar series on M&E and Ethics in the Digital Age which DME for Peace are hosting. DME for Peace is a global community of practitioners, evaluators, donors, and academics who share best and emerging practices on how to design, monitor, and evaluate peacebuilding programs. Through greater collaboration and transparency we hope to increase the effectiveness of the peacebuilding field.

Like other states in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria, Plateau State experiences persistent, low-intensity conflict, which sometimes escalates into more widespread and intense violence. In addition, ethnicity, religion and lifestyle are often closely interlinked in Plateau State, causing farmer-pastoralist conflict to take on an ethnic and religious dimension.