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Country of Origin: Kenya NLS Award: 2002-2003 Graduate Program: MA in Theological Studies in Peace & Justice, Iliff School of Theology, US Goal: Create a Peace Initiatives consulting firm using research, education, trainings and media on the role of religion in nations in conflict. Promote conflict resolution and consensus building. Current Projects: Karambu Ringera graduated from the University of Denver after completing her PhD in Human Communication in 2007. Since then, she returned to Kenya where she ran for office in Kenya's parliamentary elections. Recently, Ringera has written an account of her work fostering peace dialogues in some of the internally displaced persons camps in Kenya. The article, titled "When Elephants Fight, the Grass Below Suffers," is featured in World Pulse Spotlight. Ringera is the founder and president of International Peace Initiatives. Through IPI, Ringera has launched an AIDS Orphans Education Fund for children orphaned by AIDS in Kenya; and an Institute of Nonviolence and Peace (INPEACE) to be a nonviolence and peace training hub in Africa. Currently she is advocating for Community Homes (as opposed to orphanages) for orphans in Kenya. Community Homes are situated in the community the child grew up, thus do not separate a child from the community. The child maintains family and community connections with the extended family and friends after the parents die. In addition, the community is empowered as it participates in building and plays a part in creating sustainability for the project. Ringera is also a peace activist working with grassroots groups to highlight the impact of HIV/AIDS, poverty, and war on women and the effects of women's grassroots peace initiatives on communities in Africa. She convened the first Women's International Grassroots Peace Congress in Nairobi Kenya in August (18-20, 2005) to address the role of grassroots women's peacebuilding in Africa, which attracted people from all over Africa and beyond. For more information on her work, please visit www.ipeacei.org.
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