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A collaborative women’s network, Sisterhood for Peace works to end genocide in Sudan and create conditions for sustainable peace. Led by a core strategy group of diverse Sudanese and African-American women leaders, the Sisterhood is a partnership My Sister’s Keeper, its founder Gloria White-Hammond, and Interaction Institute for Social Change. Engaging Sudanese women within Sudan and among diaspora, the Sisterhood’s social activists design and implement strategies to mobilize under-represented populations and key constituents in organizational leadership, capacity building, and other efforts to achieve peace.

Sisterhood for Peace convenes grassroots leaders and policy and advocacy organizations to communicate the urgent need for a global women’s movement for peace in all of Sudan. Core to the Sisterhood’s mission is amplifying the voices of Sudanese women, strengthening the role of women in Sudan’s ongoing peace process, and weaving the perspective of these women into the international advocacy movement and current debates. The Sisterhood has partnered with a wide variety of NGOs, political leaders and change agents in the transnational anti-genocide movement, engaging women leaders in every part of the social change process and ensuring that peace and justice are sustained throughout all of Sudan.

The Sisterhood also fosters inter-regional dialogue among Sudanese women, a key component to its strategy for peace throughout the country. In October 2007 the group convened in the United States for a landmark women’s forum designed by and for Sudanese women, which initiated a growing movement to fill the void of cross-regional dialogue in Sudan and among diaspora. In June 2008, the Sisterhood co-convened a group of women from Darfur, eastern Sudan, the Nuba Mountains, and northern and southern Sudan. The group met in Juba, southern Sudan, in partnership with the Nobel Women’s Initiative, to facilitate alliance building and present key concerns of Sudanese women to a visiting NWI delegation forum.

Beyond Sudan, Sisterhood for Peace looks to build a global social movement to end genocide and other mass atrocities.

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Sisterhood for Peace meets with Sudanese women activists in Juba, Sudan, in August 2008. Pictured are the project director Gloria White-Hammond, left, Mona Tazorah Elsharif of Darfur, center, and lead consultant Cynthia Parker. (Kiara Nagel / Sisterhood for Peace)

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