Join USIP for our annual Women Building Peace Award Ceremony honoring 2023 award recipient Pétronille Vaweka of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as finalists Dr. Marie-Marcelle Deschamps of Haiti, Abir Haj Ibrahim of Syria, and Hamisa Zaja of Kenya.
Twenty years on, Pétronille Vaweka remembers her heated exchanges with militiamen, the threats and the horrors in her home province of Ituri, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where her mission was to "stop the war".
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