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| Indonesian woman Electronita Duan, center, receiving the N-PEACE award in Bangkok on Wednesday. (Photo supplied) |
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An
Indonesian woman has won a United Nations Development Program-sponsored peace
award for helping to build peace and prevent conflict in North Maluku.
Electronita
Duan, from Halmahera, was awarded the N-PEACE award along with fellow peace
advocates Filomena Barros dos Reis of East Timor, Purna Shova Chitrakar of
Nepal and Shreen Abdul Saroor of Sri Lanka.
The awards
were presented during a ceremony in Bangkok on Wednesday, a UNDP news release
said.
The N-PEACE
Network Web site, according to its Web site, operates in four high-risk crisis
countries "that face chronic emergencies due to high-risk of conflict and
susceptibility to natural disasters."
Electronita
is one of the founders of Politeknik Perdamaian Halamahera, an institute of
higher education for those whose studies were interrupted by conflict and who
could not afford to resume their educations, the news release said.
“Electronita
knew that normalcy could never return to conflict zones without a skilled and
educated population,” it said.
The
Indonesian activist was quoted as saying that she “believes and trusts in the
work done by women at any level.”
She said
she believed in the power of networking and advocates for “creating economic
opportunities and providing education, the best strategies to prevent conflicts
and ensure sustainable peace.”
Some 225
women who are community leaders in conflict prevention, dispute resolution,
post-crisis reconstruction and peace-building, participate in the N-PEACE
network and communicate online and through face-to-face consultations to share
experiences and strategies in advocating, promoting and keeping peace in their
countries, the release said.
The N-PEACE
Network was launched in 2010 to mark the ten-year anniversary of the UN
Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.
Jakarta Globe
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