Maiden EditionNational Conference on Violent Conflicts and Peacebuilding in Taraba State(Peace Studies Conference)

The National Conference on “Violent Conflicts and Peacebuilding in Taraba State, Northeast Nigeria” was organised by the Department of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Taraba State University, Jalingo, in collaboration with the Bureau for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Office of the Governor, Taraba State. It provided a multidisciplinary platform for scholars, researchers, policy analysts, civil society actors and practitioners to examine the dynamics of violent conflict and the possibilities for sustainable peacebuilding in Taraba State and the wider Northeast.

The conference sought to move beyond understanding Taraba merely as a site of insecurity, creating space for rigorous inquiry into the causes, manifestations, actors, consequences and responses to violent conflicts — with particular attention to governance, identity, environmental change, displacement, livelihoods, gender, youth, security and cross-border dynamics.

A major objective was to strengthen the relationship between research, policy and practice, and to foreground local knowledge, local ownership and community-based approaches to peacebuilding.

The Department invited scholars, researchers, policy analysts, civil society actors and practitioners to submit original, empirical and theoretical contributions addressing, but not limited to, the sub-themes listed above. The call is now closed; the papers presented are published in the Book of Proceedings.

Accepted papers are published in the Book of Proceedings (ISBN 978-978-68-9759-2), edited by Associate Professor Amos Jev Asongo as Editor-in-Chief with Dr. Buhari Shehu Miapyen and Dr. Nsemba Edward Lenshie as editors, and Mr. Nucha Gambo Suntai as production editor.