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Amina Abdulkadir

Abdulkadir is a lead researcher at Peace and Development Research Centre (PDRC), based in Garowe Puntland State of Somalia. She has been working on the decentralization of power to local authorities and building relationships between local leaders and their communities with particular focus on women, youth and marginalized people. Although Somali economy, is based on livestock, farming and fisheries, ...More

Defying dangers, African women take leadership roles

December 10, 2013 – 11:17 am

  It was a quiet Wednesday on June 19, just five days past the closing session of the 2013 Summer Peacebuilding Institute, when word came of an organized attack on the United Nations Development Programme office in Mogadishu, Somalia. Jan Jenner, MA ’99, director of the Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program at CJP, immediately typed these ...More