This chapter explores the over one decade-long persistent herdsmen-farmers conflict which led to internal displacement of over 1.5 million people, mass destruction of personal and community infrastructure, loss of livelihoods, and death of many across 21 of 23 local government areas in Benue, Nigeria. The chapter further examined the effects of the conflict on socio-economic development in Benue State. The exploratory study conducted in-depth interviews with 12 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 11 humanitarian aid workers. The study findings show that while displaced persons and their communities have lost enormous livelihoods and infrastructure such as shelters, schools, and healthcare, they lack opportunities for sustainable recovery, access to social services, and sustainable means of survival in their camps. As such, they have become humanitarian aid-dependent. Additionally, findings reveal that although the conflict led to mass population displacement and destroyed livelihoods and infrastructure, the response of government and humanitarian agencies of spoon-feeding IDPs rather than targeting socio-economic recovery continues to hurt development in the affected communities. Using examples from best practices, the chapter recommends that government and humanitarian agencies should focus on long-term sustainable solutions to recover IDPs’ agency and community resilience to enable livelihoods, infrastructure recovery, and end humanitarian aid dependency. The chapter concludes that targeting long-term socio-economic recovery in affected communities instead of spoon feeding the population and creating a culture of humanitarian aid dependency will help IDPs recover their agency and contribute to community and national development.