Meet Boaz Keibarak, a Kenyan peace-builder who mediated the warring Pokot and Turkana communities. He founded Kingdom of Peace and Development.
Category: Biographical Stories
Lance Muteyo
Meet Lance Muteyo, a young Zimbabwean peacemaker who finds creative implementations of conflict resolution and various types of activism.
Wilson Thiongo Gathungu
Wilson Gathungu is a Kenyan peacemaker who works to resolve inter-tribal violence in Kenya through peace-building and reconciliation training programs.
Hizkias Assefa (b. 1948)
Hizkias Assefa is an academician, teaching conflict studies at Eastern Mennonite University, but he regularly leaves the ivory tower for the hot zones of conflict to act as mediator. Hizkias Assefa is a hidden presence behind many of the peace processes that make the news.
Wangari Muta Maathai (1940–2011)
Wangari Maathai was a Kenyan environmental and women’s rights activist whose leadership played a major role in ending the dictatorship of Daniel Arap Moi.