Janet is a peace activist and has served as a member of the Government of Ghana instituted Peace Council, northern region chapter since 2014. As a peace activist, Janet has participated in a number of stakeholder peace meetings towards reconciling feuding parties in inter and intra family conflicts in respect to succession unto chieftaincy skins in the Bimbilla and Bunkurugu traditional areas. Currently, Janet coordinates a USAID supported programme known as the Northern Agriculture Sector Investments Coordinating Unit (NSAICU), which is a collaborative effort of MOFA and SADA/NDA to promote cooperation, collaboration and harmony amongst donor-led agriculture interventions in the northern sector of Ghana.

Janet Chigabatia-Adama is a member of Women Mediators across the Commonwealth (WMC), a network hosted by Conciliation Resources which connects women with a broad range of mediation knowledge and experience.