Our Commitment

African Internally Displaced Persons Voice Foundation (AIDPVF) is committed to countering violent extremism and addressing its devastating impact on internally displaced persons (IDPs), vulnerable communities, women, and youth across Nigeria. Violent extremism has contributed significantly to displacement, loss of livelihoods, social fragmentation, and long-term instability, particularly in conflict-affected regions of the country. Our approach to Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) is community-centered, preventive, and rights-based, focusing on tackling the root causes of radicalization while strengthening local resilience and social cohesion.

Violent extremism in Nigeria is fueled by a combination of factors, including prolonged conflict and insecurity, poverty, unemployment, and economic exclusion, marginalization of displaced populations, weak access to education and social services, trauma, misinformation, and ideological manipulation. Internally displaced persons are often disproportionately affected, facing heightened vulnerability to recruitment, exploitation, and radical narratives due to loss of protection and opportunity.

AIDPVF adopts a holistic and multi-sectoral strategy aligned with national and international CVE frameworks.

• Community Awareness and Prevention.
• Conduct grassroots sensitization programs in IDP camps and host communities to promote peace, tolerance, and non-violence.
• Counter extremist narratives through civic education.
• Encourage dialogue between displaced persons and host communities.
• Provide vocational skills training and livelihood support
• Support women-led peace initiatives within displaced communities
• Provide psychosocial support and trauma healing and facilitates community healing sessions

Our Early Warning and Community Reporting mechanism includes training community leaders to identify early signs of radicalization, encouraging safe, non-stigmatizing reporting channels and collaborating with local authorities and other civil society networks

AIDPVF will continue to  advocacy and for policy engagement for CVE policies that protect IDPs and promote community-led solutions within national security frameworks while ensuring humanitarian responses integrate peacebuilding and CVE components