Galuh Wandita

Overview

Galuh Wandita born January 26, 1966. Indonesian peacemaker in Timor, Kalimantan and Papua. UN human rights officer, East Timor, 2000; deputy director UN-backed Timor Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CAVR), 2002; Director International Center for Transnational Justice ICTJ, Jakarta, 2005. Nobel Peace Prize nominee, 2005.

Quotations

"Women living in conflict areas need help to enter the public arena, grab the microphone and influence the decision-makers, if not be the decision-makers themselves." (Worldpeoplesblog; photo galuhwandita)

Vivienne Wee

Overview

Vivienne Wee born Singapore July 14, 1951. Professor of Asian Studies. Co-founded feminist Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), 1985. Ran South Asia workshops on women peacebuilding.

Quotations

“The end of the Cold War has not brought global peace as we had expected. Instead, it has generated new political alignments and new patterns of war and conflict, especially large-scale violence within nation-states. About 90 per cent of war casualties in recent years are not soldiers, but civilians, mostly women and children. Approximately 20 million people are refugees, of whom 75 per cent are women and children. The systematic rape of women has become a prevalent war crime.” (UNDP speech to Beijing Conference on Women; photo Singapore Heritage Society)