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Alumni Honors
JUDY KAMANYI RECEIVES FIRST ALUMNI AWARD FROM SCHOOL OF PEACE STUDIES
On May 2nd, Judy Kamanyi, MA from the School of Peace Studies (2003), will receive an Alumni Honors award from USD. This is the first time that an alumnus from the School of Peace Studies will receive this award.
Judy Kamanyi has worked in the public and the private sector over a period of 20 years and has been engaged in social development work at national, regional and international level for more than 10 years. She led one of the pioneer women development organizations in Uganda, Action for Development and also headed The East African Center for Constitutional Development, a regional organization, working on issues of democratic development, good governance, and human rights.
Judy Kamanyi graduated from Makerere University, Uganda in 1973 with a BA and completed post-graduate studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, in the United Kingdom in 1980. In 2003, after graduating from the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, with an MA in Peace & Justice Studies she returned to Uganda and worked closely with local and international civil society organizations, the government, and development partners, including bilateral and multilateral agencies, on poverty reduction, good governance, peace and conflict resolution and transitional justice. Judy is passionate about equity and gender equality and has interacted with movers and drivers of change in numerous regional and international conferences at which issues of human rights and gender equality have been deliberated.
Currently Judy Kamanyi is working as an Advisor and Consultant. She is active in civic service, volunteering her time, knowledge and expertise as a member of the Board of Directors of the African Center for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, the Trans-cultural Psychosocial Organization, and the Nnabagereka Development Foundation. She is the Chairperson of the Policy Advisory Council to MS-Uganda (the Danish Association for International Co-operation in Uganda) and a member of the Global Policy Advisory Council of MS-Demark (Mellemfokeligt Samvirke). She is also a member of the Program Steering Committee for the Deepening Democracy Program in Uganda and served as a member of the Policy Advisory Board for the Government of Uganda and the European Union funded Civil Society Capacity Building Program.
Judy and her husband, William Kamanyi, live in Uganda, and have three children: Paul, Duncan and Marion and two grand children: Matthew and Florence.
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