This fact sheet provides a snapshot of conclusions from a case study in Niger of the RESOLVE Network’s Community-Based Armed Groups Research Initiative that investigates the dynamics of community-based armed groups (CBAGs) to identify potential approaches to engage, manage, and transform them. Southwest Niger is punctuated by anti-state attacks, the targeted killing of traditional chiefs, and attacks on markets and other socioeconomic convening locales. Community-based armed groups (CBAGs) of Fulani and Tuareg ethnicity have aligned themselves with outside actors carrying out operations in the region. This factsheet provides a summary of ongoing conflict dynamics and the knowledge and attitudes around actors participating in the violence. To learn more about the research methodology and detailed findings, please refer to the RESOLVE Research Report by Rahmane Idrissa and Bethany McGann: Mistrust & Imbalance: The Collapse of Intercommunal Relations and the Rise of Armed Community Mobilization on the Niger-Mali Border.