European Union (EU) funded non-governmental organisation, Stakeholder Democratic Network (SDN), has urged Delta communities to deploy robust conflict management strategies to tackle the perennial herdsmen-farmers’ clashes in the state.  
   
The charge came after community leaders, women and youths from communities in four local councils, Udu, Ndokwa East, Ughelli North and Bomadi, during a three-day training for communities in the local councils organised by SDN, identified herdsmen/ farmers clashes as the main threat to peace in their communities.
   
They also identified land disputes and kingship tussles as other threats to peace. The stakeholder’s engagement, being driven by SDN in partnership with Search for Common Ground Nigeria (SCGN) and the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), is part of efforts by the EU and  partners to end violence and criminality  under the project, ‘A Community Centred Approach to Transforming Criminality and Violence in the Niger Delta.’
  
Speaking on the project with the theme: ‘Intra Communal Transformative Dialogue’, a Senior Project Officer of SDN, Dr. Samuel Agboola, said the objective of the programme was to help foster peace among communities in the Niger Delta.

He said the project is to train the communities on addressing conflicts and criminality in the region using a bottom-up and community-centred approach.
Agboola said the dialogue is aimed at ensuring peace between communities and transformative dialogue that will bring about peace between warring communities so that they would collectively look at the issues and resolve them in a way that engenders peace.