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Join the Center for Peacemaking Practice in welcoming
Carolyn Hayman, CEO and co-founder of Peace Direct
and
Saba Ismail, Executive Director of Aware Girls
For a brown bag lunch discussion on supporting local capacity in peacebuilding and development
Friday, March 8, 2013
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Truland Building, room 555
Bring your lunch, coffee and tea provided
Please RSVP
Speaker bios:
Throughout a varied career, Carolyn Hayman’s focus has been on startups and innovation. Her driving passion has been for showcasing talent at the grassroots to those with power and resources.
After a brief career in the UK Department of International Development, and the Cabinet Office Think Tank she took her knowhow in the emerging field of office automation into consultancy, and investing in technology startups. Her fund eventually returned over 5 times its capital to investors. She then moved to the Foyer Federation, a newly established network of projects for homeless young people, and led its growth from 40 to 130 projects. During this time she was also a Board member of the Commonwealth Development Corporation, and was awarded an OBE for her services to young people.
In 2002 she co-founded Peace Direct, joining as CEO in 2004. Peace Direct funds and promotes local peacebuilding in conflict areas, providing resources and profile to outstanding local peace initiatives. Peace Direct funds local peacebuilders in 10 conflict areas, including the UK, and provides information on almost 700 local organisations in 21 conflict areas through its website, Insight on Conflict. Peace Direct’s goal is for local peacebuilding to be recognised as holding the key to the creation of lasting peace. To further this goal, Peace Direct has launched with others, the Local First initiative, which argues for the use of local capacity wherever possible in peacebuilding and development.
Ms. Saba Ismail is a feminist and working for women empowerment. She is the Executive Director of Aware
Girls, a nongovernmental young women led organization in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province that she co-founded at the age of 15 to empower young women through training and advocacy. She has done her Master of Science in Biotechnology from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad. She is working for empowering young women by strengthening their leadership capacities enabling them to work for social change and women empowerment, and advocate for equal access of women to health, education, governance, political participation, and other social services. Her Key working areas are Combating Violence against Women, Strengthening Leadership Skills among Young Women, Political Participation of Young Women, HIV/AIDS Prevention among Girls and Women, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and Peace.
She is one of the “Youth Ambassadors” in Asia Pacific Youth Network for 2012-2013. She is the member of the International Steering Group of United Network of Young Peacebuilders; a network working to promote peace. She is also one of the founders of the “South Asian Feminist Alliance for Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”. She is the founder of “Sahailee Hotline” that provides information about sexual and reproductive health rights. She received award from “The British High Commission in Islamabad”, for contributing one of the most inspiring stories and have represented the Civil Society for the first time in the “Informal Interactive Hearing of the General Assembly with non Governmental Organizations, Civil Society and the Private Sector” in United Nations Headquarters in New York in June, 2010.
Currently she is a Hurford youth Fellow, and as a 2013 Hurford Youth Fellow, Ms. Ismail plans to conduct research and facilitate online seminars on the role of young women in emerging democracies, including an exploration of ways in which young women might combat religious extremism and engender youth access to decision-making.