We have just uploaded 4 stories of new peace women, including Sasha Kramer, Hilal Elver, Lynx Vilden and Linda Biehl from America.
Sasha Kramer from New York got her doctoral degree in Ecology from Stanford University and co-founded a non-profit organisation SOIL(Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods)in Haiti, promoting “dignity, health, and sustainable livelihoods through the transformation of wastes into resources”.Please read her story here.
Hilal Elver is now a research professor and co-director of the Project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy at the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has been writing mainly on international environmental law, women’s rights, and international human rights law and has been contributing a lot to many textbooks and academic journals on the topics of global justice, new constitutionalism, secularism, women’s rights, water rights, environmental security, climate change diplomacy and food security. Please read her story here.
Lynx Vilden goes back to the nature, exploring indigenous culture in arctic, mountain and desert areas from Hudson Bay to the Red Sea. She has been practicing primitive living skills and teaching the others how to live sustainably in the wild in her workshop. Please read her story here.
After her daughter, Amy Biehl, killed by a mob in South Africa, Linda Biehl and her family took up Amy’s work to support South Africa’s transition to democracy and founded Amy Biehl Foundation Trust which provides after-school training programmes in Gugulethu and other places in South Africa. Please read her story here.