The Director-General, Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution IPCR Tswah Bakut, says government should start appropriating funds for peace building efforts in annual budgets, to cater for conflict resolution.
Bakut, made the call at a stakeholders consultative forum in Jos on mediation and dialogue to promote farmer-herder relationship for food security in Nigeria.
He said that the institute has embarked on several intervention programmes towards rebuilding peaceful relations in conflict areas through empirical researches to further understand the roots of violent conflicts that have prevailed in the six geo-political zones of the country.
The director-general said peace-building efforts before and after conflicts needed appropriation for sustainable development.
The IPCR boss said that conflict resolution could be capital intensive but in the long-run would improve the economy.
He added that if the government could channel adequate funds to peace building agencies, it would make a huge difference in resolving the farmer – herder conflicts.
