The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has shortlisted Borno State Governor’s Chief Adviser on Sustainable Development, Partnerships, and Humanitarian Affairs, and Coordinator of the Humanitarian Agency, Dr Mairo Mandara for the 2024 Women Building Peace Award.
The other shortlisted two are Lilly BeSoer from Papua New Guinea and Visaka Dharmadasa from Sri Lanka.
The United States Institute of Peace is a national, nonpartisan, independent institute, founded by Congress and dedicated to the proposition that a world without violent conflict is possible, practical and essential for U.S. and global security.
In a statement issued on their dashboard, the USIP received nominations of women peacebuilders from 52 countries.
According to the statement, “The finalists were selected by USIP’s Women Building Peace Council, a 16-member group of experts and leaders in the fields of gender and peacebuilding, for their extraordinary dedication to creating sustainable peace in their communities.”
Consequently, It stated that the Council shortlisted Lilly BeSoer, Visaka Dharmadasa, and Dr Mairo Mandara from three countries facing complex and challenging conflicts and embody exemplary leadership as peacebuilding practitioners.
Tribune Online gathered that Dr. Mandara is the founder of the Girl Child Concern (GCC) which established a secondary school for girls internally displaced by the insurgency
She successfully mounted a campaign which, at the height of the Boko Haram insurgency, trained over 250 IDP girls from Borno and Yobe states to complete secondary school outside the state.
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