This paper is a detailed report of the Reducing Online Conflict Community (ROCC) generative workshop in Abuja in February 2024, capturing the essential findings, themes, and recommendations discussed during the event. It provides an overview of challenges within Nigeria’s collaborative digital peacebuilding ecosystem, incorporating insights from practitioners actively addressing the Weaponization of Social Media in the Nigerian context. This document explores these actors’ cooperative efforts and operational dynamics in response to surges of hate speech. It offers thoughtful considerations on improving these mechanisms to address such issues more effectively in the future. This paper aims to document the workshop’s key findings and serve as a resource for enhancing stakeholder approaches to digital peacebuilding.
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