Tag Archives: Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program

Sowing Peace via Women Across the South Pacific

July 28, 2015 – 1:07 pm

As is true around the world, women in the Pacific Islands are often leaders in organizations that can contribute to peace, yet they tend to work in unsupported and invisible roles. The Pacific Centre for Peacebuilding aims to inspire, educate and create a needed safe space for women to dialogue, gain support and develop action ...More

Young Kenyan Woman Aids Victims of Torture

August 11, 2014 – 1:02 pm

Among the 184 people who studied at SPI 2014 were eight Kenyan women in the Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program (WPLP). Ranging in age from 23 to 51, the women work for a variety of NGOs or in academia across Kenya. Now in its third year, the WPLP admits students in cohorts from specific areas of ...More

New Focus on Women Peacebuilders

May 10, 2012 – 2:16 pm

In response to requests received over many years, this summer the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding is launching a Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program specifically tailored to women who are oriented toward social change and who wish to develop their abilities to lead the cause of peace and justice in their regions of the world. The ...More

Pioneering Program Tailored to Women Peacebuilders

May 10, 2012 – 2:16 pm

In the first program in North America of its kind, 12 women from Liberia, the South Pacific and Somalia will gather as a carefully selected and wholly sponsored cohort at the 2012 Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI), with eight other fully funded women covering the same material at an East African site. Under the name Women’s Peacebuilding ...More