Shipler Chico, Laura

Shipler Chico, Laura

Laura Shipler Chico

5 April 2013Feature

African activists work to prevent election violence and make social change

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Laura Shipler Chico

When violence erupted after Kenya’s last elections in 2007, Kenyan Quakers were quick to respond – first with humanitarian aid, then listening to people’s stories. Eventually they began to help people process their trauma and knit their communities back together. However, they soon began to see that, in order to build a lasting peace, they needed to speak out…