Alice Nderitu's Page

What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?

I work as a trainer on armed conflict, peace, human rights and social justice . I became motivated when I realised that all human rights document came into being after a conflict.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)

Alice Nderitu is the Director ESJ at Fahamu (www.fahamu.org) She has worked previously as a journalist, a teacher as well as programme head on education and media programmes at the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and the Prisons. She has worked on designing and implementing capacity-building strategies, and on the entrenchment of human rights in formal curricula in the school system and law enforcement agencies.

She specializes in training on human rights, peace and conflict. She is also experienced in development of curriculums, information,education and communication materials. She has developed training materials for and built capacities of UN agencies, civil society organizations, Law Enforcement and Military officers at the International Military Peace Support training College and the Rwanda Military Academy as well as several Police and Prisons training officers.

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise

Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda

What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?

Kenya

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?

I am a Director of Education and Social Justice at Fahamu

What is your personal or organizational website?

http://www.fahamu.org

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.hrea.org

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.oxfordjournals.org

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?

Conflict Mainstreaming, DDR, Education, Human Rights, Media

Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?

Advocacy, Capacity Building, Communication, Curriculum Development

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?

I am critiquing an article for the Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation on human rights and conflict transformation, titled 'rethinking conflict transformation from a human rights perspective' by Michelle Parveliet.

If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications

Peeling the conflict onion (www.pamabazukanews.org)
Disarm, Demobilise and reintegrate Kenya's militia ( www.nation.co.ke)