He said that the Centre is looking forward to deploying such initiative to facilitating the settlement of another inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflicts in Kaduna State.
Harland who led a delegation of the Centre, an organization active in the promotion of peace in Nigeria said that the techniques used in bringing peace to Plateau State can soon be deployed also to deal with the Boko Haram insurgency and other conflicts in Nigeria.
This was even as President Buhari identified poverty, injustice and the lack of job opportunities as being responsible mainly for inter-communal and intra-communal conflicts in the country.
He said that to achieve enduring peace in the country, greater effort must be made to eradicate poverty and injustice.
The President described ethnic and religious conflicts in parts of the country as outward manifestations of underlying problems of joblessness, injustice and poverty.
On conflicts between farmers and herdsmen, President Buhari said that a plan to map out grazing areas will soon be presented to the Nigerian Governors Forum as a temporary solution to the frequent conflicts until cattle owners are persuaded to adopt other means of rearing their cattle.
The President commended the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue for the relative peace that had returned to Plateau State as well as their on-going activity in Southern Kaduna.
He agreed with the Centre that dialogue is always preferable to the use of law and order mechanisms and force in the resolution of conflicts. [myad]
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