Women PeaceMakers Give Local Voice to International Struggle

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While the context of their stories and struggles are different, four women who will spend the next two months at the University of San Diego have one thing in common – they’re all striving to bring peace and justice to their homelands.

For the past eight years, the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice has provided a forum for women from around the world to document their stories of struggle and strides to bring peace to their homes. This year, four fearless women are in residence in the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice’s Women PeaceMakers Program.

Rubina Feroze Bhatti of Pakistan will tell her story of protecting the rights of women who are victims of honor killings, acid attacks and other heinous forms of gendered violence in the Punjab and North West Provinces of Pakistan. Zeinab Blandia will share how she works to empower women victims of the decades-long civil war in Sudan, which severely affected the communities and livelihoods of women in the Nuba Mountain region — Blandia’s home.

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