Alice Wairimu Nderitu (born 9 January 1968 in Nairobi)[1] is a Kenyan national serving since November 2020 as the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.[2][3]
Alice Wairimu Nderitu
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Nderitu in a 2022 interview with the United States Institute of Peace
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Born | (1968-01-09) 9 January 1968 (age 56) |
Nationality | Kenyan |
Alma mater | University of Nairobi |
Occupation(s) | Conflict researcher and mediator |
Nderitu holds an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Keene State College, a master's degree in armed conflict and peace studies (2013) and a Bachelor of Arts, Literature and Philosophy (1990) from the University of Nairobi.[4]
Nderitu has served as a member of the African Union's Network of African Women in Conflict Prevention and Mediation (Fem-Wise),[5] the Women Waging Peace Network, founder of the Community Voices for Peace and Pluralism, and as a columnist with The EastAfrican newspaper.
Nderitu also served as a Commissioner of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission in Kenya and was one of the founders and first co-chair of Uwiano Platform for Peace, a conflict prevention agency that uses mobile technology to encourage citizens to report indicators of violence, linking early warning to early response.
Nderitu was one of three mediators of a peace agreement signed by 10 ethnic communities in Nakuru, Kenya.[citation needed] For 16 months, she was the only woman in a peace process of 100 elders and three mediators.[citation needed] She was the lead mediator in a peace process involving 29 ethnic communities in Kaduna State that led to the signing of the Kafanchan Peace Declaration.[citation needed] She was the chief lead mediator in a peace process involving 56 ethnic communities leading to the Southern Plateau Inter-Communal Peace Declaration in Southern Plateau, Nigeria. She has contributed greatly in defining the role of women mediators, as one of the few women who are signatories to peace agreements as a mediator of armed conflict.
Nderitu served as a member of the Kenya National Committee on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and all Forms of Discrimination and as an Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities instructor.[citation needed] Nderitu has been an advocate of women inclusion in various international forums and has contributed to reports on the issue.[6]
Nderitu also served as a Commissioner of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the dissolution of the Makueni County government in Kenya.[7][8]
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