More from Alice Wairimu Nderitu
United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide…
As a commissioner of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) in Kenya Alice was central to the peace process of healing tribal differences after the Kenyan post election violence in 2008.
Alice is a member of the group of Elders who are undertaking confidential mediation between African leaders at the highest levels. She created the Uwiano Platform for Peace a conflict prevention agency largely credited with ensuring peaceful elections in Kenya in 2013.
In 2012, she was named a Woman PeaceMaker of the year by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego in the United States. She is more recently the recipient of many other awards including the Global Pluralism Award for 2017
Alice was Senior Advisor for Africa at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue where she worked as lead mediator in the Plateau State Peace Process in Nigeria.
Alice is currently the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide un.org
Alice Wairimu Nderitu talks Genocide Prevention at Boston University
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DOP – The Zone UK
Editor – Stephanie Provence
Post election violence photos courtesy – Pamoja Mtaani Ni Sisi
