Umar Abdullahi is from plateau state. He has a Grade II Teaching Certificate He is a Fulani Muslim and member of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria in Bassa local GovernmentAarea of Plateau state. Umar is convinced that interreligious dialogue and mediation is a necessary tool for community peace. He hopes to acquire requisite interfaith dialogue and mediation skills from the Fellowship program to enable him educate his fellow herdsmen and their conflict community on the need to live in peace, and build local structures and systems that track and report early warning crises signals and other crises issues to relevant authorities for necessary actions
