[2] It has emerged as a major force in the Indo-Naga peace process outside the negotiation room between the Indian state and Naga nationalist groups.
[2] It was one of the outcomes of the three-day Naga Peace Convention in Dimapur organised by Shisha Hoho, a Christian prayer group.
[6] FNR was formed at the peak of violence between various factions of the Naga armed groups, suspicious, distrust, and divisive political rhetoric.
At various points, independent observers, government bureaucrats, as well as the Indian security establishment have admitted that inter-factional killings among the Naga nationalist groups have reduced due to FNR's efforts.
[7] In January 2019, FNR called for re-imagining of the Naga peace process keeping people and their aspirations at its core.
FNR believed that this will strengthen "the process and open up possibilities for transparency, accountability, credibility, and integrity, making it viable and responsive."
It asserted that the present deadlock in the peace process stems from lack of reconciliation essential for historical and political transformation.
In December 2020, FNR further appealed for "honest discussion, truth speaking, healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation" to be embedded in the peace process.
It, therefore, is not surprising that the Indian state and its agencies with guile and statecraft have actively steered the statehood narrative intensifying division and simultaneously normalising complacency and conformity among the Naga populace.
On 31 May 2009, during a Christian foot-washing service in Chiang Mai, one of the retired generals of the political group knelt before a younger man and asked for forgiveness for the violence inflicted on the Naga people.
They issued a joined declaration, “We commit to cessation of all forms of hostilities, including any territorial expansion (supremacy of one group over other in geographical term), and for this the Joint Working Group (of three factions) will meet from time to time.”[11] The Nagaland government welcomed the statement at a state cabinet meeting acknowledging it as a major step "towards realising unity, understanding and oneness among all sections of Naga society."
After the government of India invited the NSCN (IM) for talks which led to the signing of the Framework Agreement in 2015, there was discontent amongst the other Naga political groups on being sidelined.
[14] Representing the Isac-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), V. Makritsu renewed the organisation's vow, "We reiterate our stand that together we have started, together we shall finish it.
C. Singson from the Unification faction of NSCN said, "Leaving aside all the difference as a person, as political leaders with contrasting ideology and principles, we will learn to accept each other through reconciliation and love for the nation (Naga-Land).
"[13] Singson commended FNR for bringing a spiritual reawakening to the Naga movement and restoring the "lost consciousness of the people.
[14] On 13 June 2019, FNR marked ten years since the signing of the covenant with an appeal that churches in all Naga areas ring their bells and chimes at noon for 60 seconds.