Peace correspondents

Dekha Ibrahim Abdi

Dehka Ibrahim Abdi is a peace practitioner based in Mombasa, Kenya, working as a consultant to government and civil society organisations. She is a founding member of the Wajir Peace and Development Committee, the Coalition for Peace in Africa, and ACTION (Action for Conflict Transformation). In 2007 Dekha was awarded the Right Livelihood Award by the Swedish parliament, and in 2009 Dekha was awarded the Hessian Peace Prize in Germany.

> Dekha Ibrahim Abdi awarded Hesse Peace Prize (February 2010)

Jonathan Yiah

Jonathan works for the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) in Liberia.  He attended RTC's Transforming Violence and Building Peace course in August 2008.

Maji Peterx

Maji Peterx attended RTC’s Transforming Violence and Building Peace course in 2008. Maji works for Carefronting Nigeria and in May their work on inter-religious dialogue was featured on CNN.

> Inter-religious dialogye in Jos, Nigeria (August 2009)

Rachel Wambui Kung'u

Rachel Wambui Kung'u attended RTC's Working With Conflict course in 2004. Since then Rachel has worked hard to help build peace in Kenya, primarily through her organisation, Voluntary Youth Philanthropists. VYP's program, "The Peace Caravan", has travelled all across Kenya spreading messages of peace.

> Voluntary Youth Philanthropists and the Peace Caravan (February 2010)

Trevor Maisiri

Trevor is the Executive Director of the Africa Christian Research and Policy Trust (ACRPT) in Zimbabwe.  Since attending the Transforming Violence and Building Peace course in August 2008 he has founded another local NGO, the African Reform Institute (ARI), which focuses on training women and children to become future political leaders. 

> The African Reform Institute (February 2010)