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How EU, Others Can Reduce Crime, Violence in Niger Delta

35 journalists from Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers have received training from the European Union (EU) on a community-based strategy to reduce crime and violence in the Niger Delta area.

Search for Common Ground (SFCG), a non-governmental organization, provided the training.
The five-day training session in Warri, Delta State, was welcomed by Fatima Abubakar, the country director of SFCG, who also stated that the program’s objective is to provide journalists with the necessary tools to cover crime, violence, and conflict in the Niger Delta.

35 journalists from Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers have received training from the European Union (EU) on a community-based strategy to reduce crime and violence in the Niger Delta area.
Search for Common Ground (SFCG), a non-governmental organization, provided the training.
The five-day training session in Warri, Delta State, was welcomed by Fatima Abubakar, the country director of SFCG, who also stated that the program’s objective is to provide journalists with the necessary tools to cover crime, violence, and conflict in the Niger Delta.

 

According to Dada, the principal partner is the Search for Common Ground, and the other partners include Stakeholders Democracy Network (SDN), Academic Associates Peace Works (AAPW), and Foundation Partnership Initiative in the Niger-Delta (PIND).
Mr. Temisan Etietsola, a national media practitioner, gave several lectures to the learners on

The importance of their understanding of how identity could be utilized to modify conflict was emphasized in “My Identify, Defining Conflict and Violence, the Visible and the Invisible Dynamics in Conflicts.”
An international non-governmental organization dedicated to conflict transformation, SFCG seeks to change the way that people, organizations, governments, and businesses handle conflict by moving away from confrontational methods and toward cooperative ones.