Seton Hall Graduate Degree in International Affairs
Seton Hall Graduate Degree in International Affairs

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Mavic Cabrera-Balleza

Mavic Cabrera-Balleza is the international coordinator for the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders. She leads the group's programs that carry out Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820, which ensure women's role in peace and security in conflict situations. Most recently, Cabrera-Balleza, a Filipino, was in Sierra Leone, working on such a project. Her previous job was coordinator of the International Women's Tribune Center's human rights, peace-building and human security program. She has a master's degree in communication research with a focus on women's studies.

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Despite the unprecedented developments in international law addressing women, peace and security issues, progress has been remarkably slow and unpredictable in changing the perception of women as victims of armed conflict into peace-builders and decision-makers. The transformational nature of…

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A global women’s organization with wide experience in peace-building recently brought together scores of prominent women from six African nations to take well-defined steps for dealing with the root causes of the persistent sexual violence occurring in the Democratic Republic of…

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Zainab Hawa Bangura, the minister of health and sanitation in Sierra Leone, a country that not long ago rose from a brutal civil war, will take over in September as the United Nations special representative on sexual violence in…

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Seton Hall Graduate Degree in International Affairs

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