Kenyan women lead peace effort; community learns `peace is sweet' when people mobilize to reduce violence, retaliation. (Paths to Peace Community). From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: April 26, 2002| Author: Reinhardt, Emma Dorothy | COPYRIGHT 2002 National Catholic Reporter. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

It was mid-August. I had finished a master's course in peace and conflict studies in Northern Ireland and was heading to Wajir, a district in northeast Kenya, on the border of Somalia. The State Department warned that the area was drought-stricken and rife with banditry. I knew there was an indigenous group of Somali women there leading their war-torn district to stability through nonviolent, community-centered peace initiatives. I thought I could write my thesis about them.

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