Since the 1980s, internal displacement has become a well-recognized humanitarian and development challenge. 1 The number of conflict-induced internally displaced persons (IDPs) grew from 20 to 25 million in the 1990s (Cohen, 2013), and to 62.5 million by the end of 2022 (IDMC 2023), with an additional 8.7 million internally displaced by disaster. In Nigeria, internal conflicts and generalized violence have uprooted more than 3.6 million persons (ibid.). While the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria has gained global attention for onslaughts against civilian communities, the lesser-known Fulani herdsmen-farmers conflict, which has uprooted crop farmers from their ancestral homes, cuts across all six of the nation’s geopolitical regions. This essay focuses on IDPs from Benue State in Nigeria’s Middle Belt also known as northcentral region or Central Nigeria, and the lessons it provides for responding to IDP populations elsewhere in the world.