Nigeria is undertaking a formal review of its National Peace Policy as the country grapples with overlapping security crises — including insurgency, banditry, mass kidnapping, and communal violence — that left at least 7,825 people abducted and 1,142 killed between July 2025 and June 2026. Meeting in Abuja and three regional cities in August 2026, government agencies, peacebuilding organisations, and development partners are shaping a new framework aimed at coordinating conflict prevention across federal, state, and local levels, replacing a 2012 draft policy that was never formally adopted. Officials acknowledge that military spending — which jumped 55 percent in 2025 to USD 2.1 billion — has not resolved the underlying drivers of violence, with Nigeria's presidential adviser on homeland security warning that the country cannot "shoot its way out" of its security problems and calling for greater investment in addressing governance failures, inequality, and long-standing grievances.