    • Strengthen the peacebuilding capacity of organizations and practitioners to actively engage in the prevention and/or peaceful transformation of violent conflicts in Nigeria;
    • Increase awareness and use of non-violent strategies as a proactive response to conflicts in order to avoid violence;
    • Promote principled and responsive leadership in the country within context that appreciates the culture of non-violence, advocates for just social, political structures and relationships;
    • Engender conflict prevention and peacebuilding issues in the country; and
    • Harmonize and develop conflict prevention through peacebuilding activities by networking and coordination of WANEP members into viable networks and mechanisms.