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N-Peace Awards
N-Peace, or ‘Engage for Equality, Access, Community and Empowerment’ is a UNDP flagship initiative founded in 2010 to commemorate a decade of UNSCR 1325 implementation via the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Currently unique to the Asia-Pacific region, N-Peace operates in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ... with the goal of increasing the role of women in conflict resolution and peace-building. N-Peace is built on the premise that if targeted women, men, and civil society organisations are supported with increased investments in capacity, skills, and resources, they will be able to create institutional and social shifts that prioritise the inclusion and empowerment of women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peace
Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. Throughout history, leaders have used peacemaking and diplomacy to establish a type of behavioral restraint that has resulted in the establishment of regional peace or economic growth through various forms of agreements or peace treaties. Such behavioral restraint has often resulted in the reduced conflict, greater economic interactivity, and consequently substantial prosperity. "Psychological peace" (such as peaceful thinking and emotions) is perhaps less well defined, yet often a necessary precursor to establishing "behavioural peace." Peaceful behaviour sometimes results from a "peaceful inner disposition." Some have expressed the belief that peace can be initiated with a certain quality of inner tranquility that does not depend upo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheery Zahau
Cheery Zahau ( my, ချယ်ရီဇာဟောင်, also spelt Cherry Zahau; born Tuan Cer Sung; in 1981) is a Chin human rights activist, women's right activist, feminist, politician, writer, development and peace in Burma and also based in India and Thailand. She is the founder and leader of the Women's League of Chinland. Early life and education Cheery Zahau was born in 1981 in Kalaymyo, Sagaing Region to ethnic Chin parents. She finished high school in her hometown, Kalaymyo then fled to India where she studied high school again. She continues her distance undergraduate studies at Thompson Rivers University Open Learning and studied for one year for a graduate degree at Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University. Cheery currently lives between Falam in Chin State and Yangon. She is a mother of two children - a daughter and a son. Career and movement Cheery Zahau left Burma in 1999 when she was 17 and settled in India and joined the Chin women's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farkhunda Zahra Naderi
Farkhunda Zahra Naderi ( prs, فرخنده زهرا نادری) is an Afghan politician and women's right activist. She is a member of the Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) chaired by Abdullah Abdullah. Previously she served as a senior advisor to president Ashraf Ghani in United Nations Affairs. Before that she served as a member of Parliament (Wolesi Jirag/Lower House of Afghan Parliament from 2010–2015), where she was elected as an MP in the 2010 Afghan Parliamentary Election. Farkhunda Zahra Naderi is a N-Peace Awardee, and a graduated YGL. Early life and education Naderi was born on 19 April 1981 in Kabul. She is the daughter of Sayed Mansoor Naderi, the leader of Ismaili Hazaras in Afghanistan. Naderi attended primary and secondary school in Baghlan and Kabul provinces and completed her baccalaureate at Harrow College at Harrow, London in 2001. She studied law at Westminster International University in Tashkent and graduated with a B.A d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rohaniza Usman
Rohaniza Usman is a Filipina peacemaker. In 2013 she won the N-Peace Award. Biography Born in the Philippines, Usman grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and returned to the Philippines to attend Assumption College. She started her career working on programs for the ''Office of the Presidential Assistant for Youth Affairs'' in Manila. She then worked in the Peace Development program for the non-governmental organization (NGO), ''Asia America Initiative''. Usman is the founder of the NGO ''Teach Peace Build Peace Movement'' which focuses on Filipino youth involvement in the peace movement. In 2013 Usman was awarded the N-Peace Award as an ''Emerging Peace Champion''. She also received the 2014 ''Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue'' award. Usman is an Ashoka Fellow Ashoka (formerly branded Ashoka: Innovators for the Public) is an American-based nonprofit organization that promotes social entrepreneurship by connecting and supporting individual social entrepreneurs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masuada Karokhi
Masuada Karokhi is an Afghan peace activist, women's rights advocate, and recipient of the N-Peace Award in 2013. Karokhi ran for the office of member of parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ... (a member of the Lower House) for Herat twice, in 2005 and 2010. She won in 2010. References External links A staunch women's rights campaigner: Masuada Karokhi wins the N-Peace Award 2013YouTube video {{DEFAULTSORT:Karokhi, Masuada Living people 1962 births 21st-century Afghan politicians 20th-century Afghan women 21st-century Afghan women politicians 20th-century Afghan educators 21st-century Afghan educators Afghan women activists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentina Sagala
Rotua Valentina Sagala is an Indonesian women's rights activist and activist for law and human rights. In 2013 she won the N-Peace Award. Biography Sagala was born on August 9, 1977 in Jakarta. In 1998 she founded the ''Institut Perempuan'' (Women's Institute), a non-profit organization that fights for women's rights and consistently advocates for laws protecting women and children, monitors policy formulation and law enforcement, and also runs schools for feminists. In 2001 she received her bachelor’s degree and in 2006 earned her law Master’s degree. She went on to teach Human Rights Law at the Parahyangan Catholic University. In 2013 Sagala was awarded the N-Peace Award as an ''Role Models for Peace''. In 2014 she was named as one of the ''Women on the Rise'' by ''GlobeAsia Magazine''. In 2015 PeaceWomen Across the Globe PeaceWomen Across the Globe (PWAG), previously known as 1000 PeaceWomen, is an organization based in Bern, Switzerland that aims to increase the visi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Santiago
Irene Morada Santiago is a peace negotiator from the Philippines. She is Chair Emerita and chief executive officer of the Mindanao Commission on Women (MCW). Santiago has negotiated peace between Muslim separatists and the Philippines government. She has spent 40 years advocating for the involvement of women in peace processes, serving as peace adviser to the mayor of Davao, executive director of the Mindanao Commission on Women, Inc. and campaign organizer for Women Seriously and Women's Peace Table Worldwide. In 2020, Santiago was among the 10 finalists announced by the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) for the inaugural Women Building Peace Award. She was chosen from among over 150 nominations from 51 countries. She was cited as one of the first women in the world to be both a member of a peace negotiating panel and the chair of the panel implementing a major peace agreement. Her ''Peace 911'' Initiative significantly reduced violent conflict in Paquibato District, Davao City wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalena Bidau Soares
Magdalena Bidau Soares is an East Timorese peace activist A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals, such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter-human violence in a particular place or situation. They are often linked to the goal of achieving world peac ... and recipient of the N-Peace Award in 2013. In 1975 Soares was forced to flee her village during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. She became part of the guerrilla movement resisting the occupation. She was captured and imprisoned. After her release she continued her resistance activities by joining the ''Popular Women’s Organisation Timor'' (OPMT). Once the occupation was over, in 1999, Soares turned her attention to peace activism and improving the lives of others. She founded the organization ''Feto Haluk Hadomi Timor'' which works with widows of ex-combatants, providing training for income-generating activities like farming and crafts. In 2013 Soares was one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wai Wai Nu
Wai Wai Nu ( my, ဝေဝေနု; born 1987) is a Burmese activist who advocates for the rights and equality of all people in Myanmar, including the Rohingya. She was listed one of the BBC 100 Women in 2014. In 2017, she was named one of ''Time'' magazine's Next Generation Leaders. Biography Wai Wai Nu was born in 1987 in Buthidaung, Rakhine State, Myanmar to Rohingya parents. She grew up in Buthidaung. Her family moved to Yangon in 1993 because of her father's political activism; Kyaw Min continually fought for labor rights and was harassed by the junta. Wai Wai Nu was admitted into the University of East Yangon to study law at age 16. Imprisonment When Wai Wai Nu was 18 years old in 2005, her parents and all their children were arrested. She was in her second year of law school at Yangon East university. Her father had been voted in as a member of Parliament as part of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in the 1990 general election, but the military junta r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Coronel-Ferrer
Prof. Miriam Coronel-Ferrer is a Filipino peace negotiator and the chair of the peace panel of the Government of the Philippines during the time of President Simeon Benigno Aquino III (2010-2016). On behalf of government, she signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. She is the first female chief negotiator in the world to sign a final peace accord with a rebel group. She is also a political science professor at the University of the Philippines (UP). Education and career Coronel-Ferrer graduated cum laude from UP Diliman with a degree in philosophy in 1980. She also possesses a master's degree in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury. In the early 2000s, she served as the director of the UP Third World Studies Center and was a convenor of the Program on Peace, Democratization, and Human Rights of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies until 2005. Before joining the government peace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabiah Jamil Beg
Rabiah Jamil Beg is a correspondent and producer for the Pakistani television network Geo. She has been the pioneer member of the Voice of America's Urdu Magazine show "Khabron Sey Agey" aired from Washington DC to report on Pakistani diaspora and news related to South Asian region. She reports from a wide variety of areas throughout Pakistan such as Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ..., and Sindh. Her topics include conflict, humanitarian crises, insurgencies, politics, and social issues. She is referred to as the only woman journalist reporting from dangerous areas in Pakistan. In 2014 Rabiah Jamil Beg was awarded the UNDP's N-Peace Award in the category of "''Breaking Stereotypes– Women and Media"''. She has joined the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasina Jalal
Hasina Jalal (Persian: حسینه جلال) is an advocate for women's rights and democracy in Afghanistan. In 2014, Jalal was elected by public vote to receive the " N-Peace Award" from the UNDP Asia Pacific Regional Office and the UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on the University for Peace. In 2012, she co-founded the National Association of Afghanistan Civil Society with the membership of more than 50 non-profit and non-governmental organizations in Afghanistan. She has strived to raise the voices of Afghan women and girls in various regional and international platforms and has co-founded the first alliance of South Asian women on women's economic, social, and culture rights in Sri Lanka. In her last position at the government of Afghanistan, she was heading the international donors' funded programs and initiatives to the mines, oil, and gas sectors of Afghanistan. Biography Hasina Jalal has obtained her undergraduate degree in economics with a minor in political science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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