
Peace Begins With A Smile
The project focuses to contribute to building better inter community trust and confidence among religious groups and promote better information sharing in order to build resilience to the activities of Boko Haram and ISWAP, thereby improving community cohesion and reconciliation. This will come in the form of regular inter-religious dialogues across the different communities and will cumulate to a state-wide inter-religious dialogue and conference across the BAY states to address emerging religious dimensions of the insurgency demonstrated in their new patterns and tactics. Over the years, DREP has been supporting communities across the North Central, Northeast, and other parts of the country that are polarized along religious and ethnic divides, engaging them in joint interventions that highlight religious and ethnic stereotypes and setting up community platforms that regularly engage members in dialogue and meetings geared towards addressing misconception of religion and other stereotypes.